Help with Mounting filesystem

[Ross McPhaden_2]

Hi all,

I have no experience whatsoever with Tru64 OS, so please bear with me.

I have been running sharity on by HP box and have been having many problems with it, so as I need access to a windows PC thought it would be easier to install an NFS server on amy Windows XP pc. I installed WinAxe and setup the NFS server on the PC. When I try to connect to it it just fails with a "Can't access hploxtheta:/c: No such file or directory" the commnd I used on the HP box was "mount -t nfs server:/ /test"

Has anybody any idea what I may be doing wrong with this command?

many thanks

Ross

[Johan Brusche · Accepted solution]

On the Tru64 system did you also:

mkdir /test ; chmod 777 /test

Your mount command makes me believe you are exporting the whole c-drive of the PC, is that correct ?

I have no experience with WinAxe, but what is it's equivalent of the etc/exports file normally found on a NFS server, and how have you defined root uid translation in it ?

__ Johan.

[Ralf Puchner]

This is not a Tru64 question it is a common "how to share a stupid pc directory to a unix or linux system"....

First the nameresolution must work, so please setup and check if hostnames can be accesses correctly. Be sure you are not using any disallowed characters in hostnames.

Second install your PC NFS implementation and share your mountpoint, but be sure you also setup proper permissions (directory) which varies on the different PC NFS implementations.

Third, be sure nfs client setup was done (have a look into the network admin guide explaining how to do it) on Tru64 side.
Use rpcinfo and showmount to verify proper setup of the PC NFS stuff. If this fail please go to the vendor of your PC NFS implementation or read the manual of the software carefully.

[Ross McPhaden_2]

Hi Johan,

Thanks for the reply,

Yes, 'C' is shared. I though it would be easier just to test at first.

There is an option that allows basically everybode that connect to have full access to the share, which is currently the way its set.

I have now found that I don't need to manually enter the commands, I am able to connect via nfs services in sysman. Wish I'd found this earlier!!

Any still having probles with the path, does not seem to like it.

What should be in the path field should I just enter '/' as i want to connect to the root of my share? or something different.



Ralf,

This is a tru64 unix question if you read my question. I have already contacted the software supplier and they advised that I have the application setup correctly and it is the syntax on my connection from the HP box that must be wrong.

I only asked a simple question, I did not expect a reply like this.

Ross!

[Johan Brusche]

What output do you get when you issue the command :

showmount -e


_- Johan.

[Ross McPhaden_2]

Hi Johan,

It gives me the response

/c/rosstest *


thks


Ross

[Johan Brusche]

So your mount command should be:

mount_:/c/rosstest_/test

(underscores represent spaces)

__ Johan..

[Ross McPhaden_2]

Hi Johan,

Thats it working great


Many thanks for you help



Ross

[Ralf Puchner]

Ross,

it is a "generic" connection question because implementing a pcnfs-solution for access to a unix or linux system is always the same (in command and setup).

the showmount and rpcinfo was a hint for troubleshooting but it seems you have not read it carefully to solve your problem. Btw. this information can also be found on the troubleshooting section of the network admin guide.

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Ross,

please take a moment and assign points to those who tried to help you.

thanks,

Michael