mounting cdrom using NFS

[SAMIR DANDEKAR]

Hi,

I want to mount cdrom on a server (which do not have cdrom drive) from another server (which has cdrom drive). I have created /etc/exports with following contents
/cdrom -ro
then I issue '#exportfs -a' on cdrom-drive server. When I try to mount by giving 'mount cdrom_drive_server:/cdrom /cdrom' on no_cdrom_drive_server, I receive following error

nfs mount:get_fh:cdrom_server::RPC:Program not registerd
nfs mount:retry:retrying(1) for:/cdrom after 5 econds
nfs mount:retry:giving up on:/cdrom

Do anybody has clue?

Thanx in advance

Samir

[Shaikh Imran · Accepted solution]

hi,
Are nfs services running on both the server as well as client

For NFS Server:
/sbin/init.d/nfs.core start
/sbin/init.d/nfs.server start
/sbin/init.d/nfs.client start

For client ( where you want the cdrom)
/sbin/init.d/nfs.core start
/sbin/init.d/nfs.client start

Also check for proper configurations in
/etc/rc.config.d/nfs.conf file on the respective servers.

Also use rpcinfo command to check whether
the nfs program is available
( see man rpcinfo for details )

Regards,

[Ermin Borovac]

Is rpc.mountd running on the server? If not, set

START_MOUNTD=1

in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf

and run /sbin/init.d/nfs.server start

To check that /cdrom is exported ok, from the client run

showmount -e

[SAMIR DANDEKAR]

Hi Shaikh,

It was right on the hole. I got it.

Thanks

Samir