[rescue] A quick NFS question

[Sheldon T. Hall]

"Matthew Haas" <wedge at lightlink.com> wrote

> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> >
> > I like my Indigo2 a lot.  So much so that I'd like to be able to use NFS
to
> > mount some directories off of my SPARCstation LX and just use the I2.
> >
>
>  Wow, that's almost freaky.. I am doing almost the exact same thing... I
> have my MP3 collection living on my SPARCstation LX which I NFS mount onto
> my Indigo2.
>
> > It seems simple enough:  edit "/etc/dfs/dfstab" and run
> > "/etc/init.d/nfs.server start" on the LX, then run some mount command on
the
> > I2.
> >
>
>  Of course the big difference is I'm using Debian (2.2) on my LX... it was
> easy to setup there. nfsd & portmapper & mountd started with the proper
> lines in /etc/exports and it worked good.
>
> > The Sun's dfstab file's only non-commented line looks like this:
> >
> >     share -F nfs -d "Home Directories" /users
> >
> > and starting nfs.server produces no error messages.
> >
>
>  I don't know if this is possible, although I don't see why not... but can
> you mount the exported NFS filesystem from the LX on the LX? If you get
> problems there it may point to a configuration problem on the LX, not the
> I2.

Nope.  I get "permission denied" ... so I suppose the dfstab line is wrong,
but I don't see how.

> > What mount command should I use on the I2?  "mount -F nfs
rtfm:/users/shel
> > mnt" doesn't work (mnt is a directory in the directory I'm in).
> >
> > I seem to be missing something.  Can someone direct a clue my way?
> >
>
>  I don't even see a "-F" argument in the mount man page on my I2 (running
> IRIX 6.5.7f). But to get going on my I2 I just have to do:
>
>  mount -t nfs sparclx:/mp3 /mnt

The -F option seems to be the same as -t ... neither work!

Thanks.

-Shel