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| j_cipale... |
 Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:10 am |
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Adding more fuel to the OS Distro fire. I ran into a series of issues
trying to get NFS working between
different distros this weekend. suse/fedora have the best method with
their gui front-end tools to config client/server. ubuntu has nothing
of the sort which requires manually configuring /etc/hosts.* as well
as fstab, exports, mtab.
The problem I ran into that we frustrating as hell was getting NFS to
work between a SuSE installed host and an ubuntu installed host. I
kept receving the error(s):
Unable to mount, only root can do that.
Permission denied from host.
I am also less than thrilled with this fup that removes the ability to
perform a root-login via the GUI login screen. I fixed it once
(editing /etfc/gdm/...) and setting root login=true, but after about
3-4 successful login attempts, the damn script returned to root login
= false.
This concept of 'making linux safe' is an ef-up. If I wanted a 'safe'
OS, I would be running WIndows.
Oh wait...
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have NEVER had these
problems getting workstations to interact in the past. It has always
been pretty straightforward.
Joe |
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| j_cipale... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:54 am |
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On Oct 26, 9:16 am, Malcolm <malcolm_nospamle... at (no spam) bellsouth.net> wrote:
Quote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:10:11 -0700 (PDT)
j_cipale <j_cip... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
Adding more fuel to the OS Distro fire. I ran into a series of issues
trying to get NFS working between
different distros this weekend. suse/fedora have the best method with
their gui front-end tools to config client/server. ubuntu has nothing
of the sort which requires manually configuring /etc/hosts.* as well
as fstab, exports, mtab.
The problem I ran into that we frustrating as hell was getting NFS to
work between a SuSE installed host and an ubuntu installed host. I
kept receving the error(s):
Unable to mount, only root can do that.
Permission denied from host.
I am also less than thrilled with this fup that removes the ability to
perform a root-login via the GUI login screen. I fixed it once
(editing /etfc/gdm/...) and setting root login=true, but after about
3-4 successful login attempts, the damn script returned to root login
= false.
This concept of 'making linux safe' is an ef-up. If I wanted a 'safe'
OS, I would be running WIndows.
Oh wait...
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have NEVER had these
problems getting workstations to interact in the past. It has always
been pretty straightforward.
Joe
Hi
Install webmin to configure nfs?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.2 RC 1 (i586) Kernel 2.6.31.3-1-desktop
up 21:02, 1 user, load average: 0.28, 0.20, 0.13
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Webmin (to my knowledge) is installed. I can pull up the Admin(sic)
control and click on NFS Client/Server dialogs but when the rubber
meets the road, the mount points are just plain borked. |
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| j_cipale... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:06 am |
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On Oct 26, 10:44 am, Ram <R... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
Quote: j_cipale wrote:
Adding more fuel to the OS Distro fire. I ran into a series of issues
trying to get NFS working between
different distros this weekend. suse/fedora have the best method with
their gui front-end tools to config client/server. ubuntu has nothing
of the sort which requires manually configuring /etc/hosts.* as well
as fstab, exports, mtab.
The problem I ran into that we frustrating as hell was getting NFS to
work between a SuSE installed host and an ubuntu installed host. I
kept receving the error(s):
Unable to mount, only root can do that.
Permission denied from host.
I am also less than thrilled with this fup that removes the ability to
perform a root-login via the GUI login screen. I fixed it once
(editing /etfc/gdm/...) and setting root login=true, but after about
3-4 successful login attempts, the damn script returned to root login
= false.
This concept of 'making linux safe' is an ef-up. If I wanted a 'safe'
OS, I would be running WIndows.
Oh wait...
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have NEVER had these
problems getting workstations to interact in the past. It has always
been pretty straightforward.
Joe
What's your export file look like ?
Can you see these from Ubuntu? showmount -e "hostname or IP of server"
I've been connecting to OS11 NFS supplied shares for over a yeah to
Unbuntu 8.04 /10 - 9.04 and now 9.10 on each upgrade or as in the latest
9.10 clean install.
All I've had to do was install *NFS-Common* then edit fstab and add the
share mount points.
Mount points that I want all users to see, go in /media/sonedirectory,
these directories needed creating. Stuff that I mount in /mnt/home/ got
created automatically.
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Yeah.. I do the same thing (i.e with fstab/exports/mtab). I am at work
so will send the info once I reinstall
things tonight (~sigh~).
Thanks for responding.
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| Malcolm... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:16 am |
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:10:11 -0700 (PDT)
j_cipale <j_cipale at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote: Adding more fuel to the OS Distro fire. I ran into a series of issues
trying to get NFS working between
different distros this weekend. suse/fedora have the best method with
their gui front-end tools to config client/server. ubuntu has nothing
of the sort which requires manually configuring /etc/hosts.* as well
as fstab, exports, mtab.
The problem I ran into that we frustrating as hell was getting NFS to
work between a SuSE installed host and an ubuntu installed host. I
kept receving the error(s):
Unable to mount, only root can do that.
Permission denied from host.
I am also less than thrilled with this fup that removes the ability to
perform a root-login via the GUI login screen. I fixed it once
(editing /etfc/gdm/...) and setting root login=true, but after about
3-4 successful login attempts, the damn script returned to root login
= false.
This concept of 'making linux safe' is an ef-up. If I wanted a 'safe'
OS, I would be running WIndows.
Oh wait...
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have NEVER had these
problems getting workstations to interact in the past. It has always
been pretty straightforward.
Joe
Hi
Install webmin to configure nfs?
--
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.2 RC 1 (i586) Kernel 2.6.31.3-1-desktop
up 21:02, 1 user, load average: 0.28, 0.20, 0.13
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME |
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| Ram... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:44 am |
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j_cipale wrote:
Quote: Adding more fuel to the OS Distro fire. I ran into a series of issues
trying to get NFS working between
different distros this weekend. suse/fedora have the best method with
their gui front-end tools to config client/server. ubuntu has nothing
of the sort which requires manually configuring /etc/hosts.* as well
as fstab, exports, mtab.
The problem I ran into that we frustrating as hell was getting NFS to
work between a SuSE installed host and an ubuntu installed host. I
kept receving the error(s):
Unable to mount, only root can do that.
Permission denied from host.
I am also less than thrilled with this fup that removes the ability to
perform a root-login via the GUI login screen. I fixed it once
(editing /etfc/gdm/...) and setting root login=true, but after about
3-4 successful login attempts, the damn script returned to root login
= false.
This concept of 'making linux safe' is an ef-up. If I wanted a 'safe'
OS, I would be running WIndows.
Oh wait...
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have NEVER had these
problems getting workstations to interact in the past. It has always
been pretty straightforward.
Joe
What's your export file look like ?
Can you see these from Ubuntu? showmount -e "hostname or IP of server"
I've been connecting to OS11 NFS supplied shares for over a yeah to
Unbuntu 8.04 /10 - 9.04 and now 9.10 on each upgrade or as in the latest
9.10 clean install.
All I've had to do was install *NFS-Common* then edit fstab and add the
share mount points.
Mount points that I want all users to see, go in /media/sonedirectory,
these directories needed creating. Stuff that I mount in /mnt/home/ got
created automatically.
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| David Bolt... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:41 pm |
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On Monday 26 Oct 2009 17:44, Ram played with alphabet spaghetti and
left this residue on the plate:
Quote: What's your export file look like ?
Can you see these from Ubuntu? showmount -e "hostname or IP of server"
I've been connecting to OS11 NFS supplied shares for over a yeah to
Unbuntu 8.04 /10 - 9.04 and now 9.10 on each upgrade or as in the latest
9.10 clean install.
On suggestion is to have a look at your exports and check to see if
each exported file system has it's own fsid. I have various systems
with different a selection of openSUSE and SuSE[0] versions and I found
that, without having the fsid specified, I started having problems
mounting NFS shares on 11.0 and later versions. I can't recall where I
discovered this as a possible cure, although I do recall Googling to
see if I could find out what was causing the problem, and what was a
possible solution.
Quote: All I've had to do was install *NFS-Common* then edit fstab and add the
share mount points.
I used to do that, but it would slow down booting somewhat if more than
one system was rebooted at the same time. My solution was to use autofs
and have that doing the mounting for me.
Quote: Mount points that I want all users to see, go in /media/sonedirectory,
these directories needed creating. Stuff that I mount in /mnt/home/ got
created automatically.
With autofs, I have specified all my mounts under /mounts . There I
have a sub-directory for each exported host that I wish the system to
have access to the sharing systems shares. Then, to access a file or
directory, all I need to do is look inside the directory and autofs
mounts it for me.
For the most part this works just fine. Sometimes, after a reboot of
one of the sharing systems, I need to explicitly restart the nfsserver,
but that's not a common requirement. Then again, reboots aren't that
common either.
[0] Yes, some of the systems I have are well beyond EOL. I still have a
system running 9.3, mainly because it does very little but act as a
file server, and a laptop running 9.1 because its memory can't be
upgraded enough to run anything later at a usable speed.
Regards,
David Bolt
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