slackware NFS

[jerry1]

Does anyone know how to get NFS working on
Linux slackware correctly? Some mounts are
okay, others show mounted but no listing of
files/dirs. linux man page on autofs but no
autofs present on linux slackware server 2.6.22.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

You need an /etc/exports file

exportfs -av

That will get you verbose output for any problems you have.

I'm asking that this be transferred to the Linux section where it belongs.

SEP

[jerry1]

Thanks Steve, but /etc/exports is for
exporting local filesystems. I need to
get automounter working on the linux box
to mount exported file systems from the UNIX nfs servers.

I currently have to use

automount yp

In the rc startup script.


I should have put more info in my email.
Sorry.

[Angus Crome]

Look at the man pages for mount, nfsd, exportfs, etc....

This sounds like an NFS version problem. You may have mis-matched NFS versions (client/server) which can cause all kinds of screwy things to happen. Anything from not mounting at all to data loss with bad NFS caching. I believe the setting for automounter is vers= and can be set to 2 or 3 (possibly 4), although it is not supported on all platforms yet.

[jerry1]

What I was able to determine is that
Slackware does not support nis maps
that use /- ( Direct Map ) and does
not work with auto_master map. Or at
least I was not able to figure out
how to tell the system to use auto_master.

Linux man pages are lacking at best.


My solution was to just put in rc.yp:

mount :

For every mount I needed. Instead of
using:

automount yp

How so old fashioned.