Cannot mount remote file systems

[Clarence J]

Hi

I have a filesystem created on Linux RedHat 7.0 called /xpt.

I'm trying to import it into my HP D370 server. However, when I run SAM -> Networking and Communications -> Mounted Remote File Systems

and try to have the directory mounted, I get the following error:

"nfs mount: get_fh: lxmits::RPC: Program not registered."

What does this error mean and how to overcome it?

[Printaporn_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If you already export NFS files from Linux , you can use #showmount -e to see does UNIX see that exported files system or not ?

[Clarence J]

Yes, when I issue the above command I can see the exported directory.

How is it I cannot see the contents of the directory at all. BTW, the directory appears as a soft link on the HP server.

Regards.

[Clarence J]

Sorry, I have mistakenly closed this case by assigning the pts.

Can someone pls follow-up on this and help me resolve the above? Pls refer to my previous msg.

Thks!

[Ravi_8]

Hi,
u r linux system showing that the filesystem is exported, but what is the entry do u have in the /etc/exports, is it for all system or for specified systems, if so make an entry for unix system to which u wanted to mount.
i.e open the /etc/exports, make entry
filesystem path -access=unix system
close the file
#exportfs -a
in the unix system
#mount linux mc name:/filesystem path /mount- point
hope this solve u r problem

[Ravi_8]

hi,
u r linux system shows that the filesystem has been exported, but is it been exported to all the systems or just for specified systems, pls do check the /etc/exports file, if entry is not there for the unix system make the same and
#mount filesystem /mount-point
# exportfs -a
in the unix machine
# mount linux system:/mount-point /mountpoint
hope this solve u r problem

later
ravi

[Clarence J]

Thks Ravi,

I've placed an entry in /etc/exports. Hw when I do an exportfs -a, I get an error:

no such file or directory eventhough it exists.

Pls assist.

[Stefan Schulz]

Hi,

most Linux Systems don't support the exportfs command. In the manpages of exports you will find the necessary command to make the changes active. (Think it's something like inetd -c).

For the RPC message: Think you have to make your Linux box to an NFS Server and not only an NFS Client. In HP-UX you have to set NFS_SERVER=1 in the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf. Try to find a similar entry in the /etc/rc.config. This should solve your RPC problems.

Hope this helps. Stefan

[Tim D Fulford]

I sort of concur with stefan above. If you are exporting a Linux FS & importing it onto HP, HP needs to be a NFSClient and the Linux bot a NFSServer, NOT the other way 'round.

Just a couple of other basic things. [I may well be teaching you to suck eggs here, if so appologies :o]

If you are using HP-UX 11.x NFS will be V3 10.X it will be V2

Make sure BOTH boxes can ping each other

Good luck

Tim