Setting up NFS

[Dirk Moolman]

Hi, I am busy searching through the manuals, and Googling, but I was hoping someone could give me a quicker answer.
I need to set up NFS on an HP server (10.20), pointing to a Solaris server (on the same network).
I am not very familiar with NFS, except for the vfstab entries. I know there are NFS daemons, and that I need to somewhere "allow" the NFS mounts I want to set up (server/directory?)

What are the files I need to set up (and daemons to start), for my NFS to work ?

Dirk

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

Standard note: HP-UX 10.20 is out of support.

NFS is core to the OS functionality.

/etc/rc.config/nfsconf

Contains the start parameters for NFS. If the HP-UX machine is to be a server make sure the NFS_SERVER variable is set to 1.

To manually start nfs server:
/sbin/init.d/nfs.server start


The configuration control file is /etc/exports

To share /tmp

/tmp *(rw,async)
# shares /tmp read write asyncronous write mode. All hosts (*)
/home galactica(ro)
# Shares /home read only, only to the host named galactica

exportfs -av
#re-exports nfs shares without restarting the NFS daemons.

SEP

[Dirk Moolman]

Yes, this is a very old opsys - the client does not want to spend money to upgrade, unfortunately.

Thank you very much for the reply (with example) - very easy to understand

Much appreciated.

Dirk

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Dirk!

Do not forget to assign steve points for that excellent answer, is the way that we show appreciation in this community.

Regards,

Jaime.

[Dirk Moolman]

Thanks Jaime. Yes, this has been a very helpful forum for me, and also always friendly and willing to assist.

Sorry for posts I have not given points to yet. This is a hectic shop I'm in, and some of my problem tasks I have not completed yet.

And also apologies if I sometimes ask stupid questions, but due to the pressure here, I often get answers from the forum before I find them in the manuals.

Thanks everyone.

[Dirk Moolman]

Hi Steven. I followed your instructions, starting the nfs.server etc.
I tried using SAM to do the NFS mount for me, but when I type in the remote host name, I get the error: RPC_PROG_NOT_REGISTERED

I did some searching on Google, but so far everything looks ok to me. (from what I could find: rpc.mountd started, nfsd started)

I must still be missing something here.

Dirk

[Dave Olker]

Hi Dirk,

Did you get this working or do you still need help?

Dave