Re: NFS - is there a simple answer (what have i missed)

From: central77 (central77_at_lycosNOT.com)
Date: 01/22/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:27:42 +0000

mjt wrote:

>
> ... what kind of 'network' do you have? are your machines
> behind a router?
>
> show us the contents of /etc/fstab for the NFS client
> machine and the /etc/exports for the NFS server. and
> ensure the NFS daemon is running.
>
> make doubly sure the firewalls are not running or that you
> have the ports avail (9.2 asks this during NFS enabling).

OK...
hardware wise, its two PCs connected to a Netgear hub which is in turn
connected to a dsl modem/router with firewall and DHCP - as I said, it
'works' in that I have net connections and ping between the two machines.

etc/exports says:
/data1/ *(ro,root_squash,sync)
/home/ *(ro,root_squash,sync)

fstab has a line:
linux:/data1, /windows, nfs, defaults 0 0 (thats typed, not cut and past)

this line is the result of my manual entries into yast, since the browse/
choose function doesnt find anything. /data1 is a directory on the desktop
(linux being its defaults name) and I wanted to mount it to windows on the
laptop (renamed via hostname) simply because thats a good mount point for
my simple mind that still thinks of physical drives. It doesnt have to be
this way - it was just a guess / start point. According to yast, both NIS
and NFS servers are running on the desktop, as is portmap. When the laptop
is running Win2k, samba works: I can browse either machine from the other
so I'm guess a; the hardware is fine and b: its the laptop thats the
problem. I tried samba on the laptop (convoluted, but I though it might
work) but no joy.

Now, the bit where I MAY have been dumb: I realised this morning that there
is no 'network browsing' icon on the laptop. I loaded Suse on a different
machine with no network connection. Since the drive is back in the laptop,
I've reconfigured the network adaptor and, as I say, internet and ping are
both fine, but could something have got missed during install? Finally, do
I need to do anything with inetd in yast? I've enabled it, but thats all.

Thanks to all so far...

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