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nfs a directory from sun to linux

Gerard Powell — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:01:07 GMT

Can some one guide me how to do an NFS of a directory from a SunOS 5.8 to a Linux 2.4 system.

Re: nfs a directory from sun to linux

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:41:25 GMT

use the share command,for example:
`share -o ro /tmp`
will share the local tmp directory via NFS.

`dfshares` will show available shares.
`dfshares hostname` will show available shares on hostname.
you casn also use the showmount for it.
To make the share permanent,edit the file /etc/dfs/sharetab
for the /tmp sharing (example only)
/tmp - nfs ro

Best regards.

Re: nfs a directory from sun to linux

Gerard Powell — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:39:42 GMT

I have executed the command share -o ro /tc4src
i get a error nfs dfshares:tc4sun: RPC: Program not registered

Re: nfs a directory from sun to linux

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:55:14 GMT

first you should start the server:
/etc/init.d/nfs.server start

Re: nfs a directory from sun to linux

Gerard Powell — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:12:03 GMT

Even after starting the nfs server when I give dfshares command, I get the same error nfs dfshares:tc4sun: RPC: Program not registered

tc4sun the host name.

Re: nfs a directory from sun to linux

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:26:40 GMT

did you start the rpc?
/etc/init.d/rpc start

Re: nfs a directory from sun to linux

Gerard Powell — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:52:16 GMT

Even after starting rpc I get the same error.

Re: nfs a directory from sun to linux

Alexander Chuzhoy — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:21:51 GMT

The file to edit for permanent shares is
/etc/dfs/dfstab

place an entry in it:
share -F nfs -o ro /tmp

for example to share the /tmp directory (not that you would wanna do this).
after that restart the rpc service
/etc/init.d/rpc stop
/etc/init.d/rpc start
now restart the nfs service
/etc/init.d/nfs stop
/etc/init.d/nfs start

Hope it helps.

Re: nfs a directory from sun to linux

Sivasingam Santhakumar — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:40:22 GMT

I have you started NFS services on your Linux box:
/sbin/service NFS start
Also make it permenant ( survive the reboots)
/sbin/chkconfig --level 234 NFS on

Re: nfs a directory from sun to linux

Ross Minkov — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:24:52 GMT

The Linux box is the NFS client in this case. No need to start nfs server on it. And Linux is case-sensitive -- there is no service NFS. It's nfs.

Re: nfs a directory from sun to linux

Indrajit_1 — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:10:06 GMT

Hi,

Do the following steps..

Configure NFS server in Solaris 5.8..

#vi /etc/dfs/dfstab

share -F nfs -o rw= -d "directory_name" /

for example..
share -F nfs -o=192.168.1.10 -d "home directory" /export/home

save and come out..
#/etc/init.d/nfs.server stop
#/etc/init.d/nfs.server start
Go to client machine (Linux machine) and create a directory under which u want to mount the share directory..

#mkdir /dump
#mount :/ /dump

For example..
#mount 192.168.1.50:/export/home /dump

Hope it would work...

cheers
indrajit

Re: nfs a directory from sun to linux

Gerard Powell — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:16:51 GMT

When I try to mount the Sun Server directory on the linux m/c, I get this error

mount: 172.25.1.24:/tc4home failed, reason given by server: Permission denied