Hi,

I have set up a NFS server on RHEL. I have edit these changes in /etc/exports file:

/data *.example.com(ro,sync)
/mybackup 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync)

Then, I have run exportfs -a command. Thern, i have restart the service both portmap and nfs. Then, i tried to use a command "showmount -e localhost". It works well.

From , client computer. I tried to mount /data directory using

#mount -t nfs 192.168.0.1:/data /temp

it works well. but when i edit same line in /etc/fstab file. Then by the time of restating the client. The computer just hangs up.

I have added this line in /etc/fstab file

192.168.0.1:/data /temp nfs defaults 1 1


Please help

What happens when you type:

mount /temp

with the entry in /etc/fstab

well,

By the time of restarting the system, it gives an message that : no init file found. and something like that,

Do the NFS processes start automatically on reboot or do you have to start them manually?

There should be a file in /etc/rc.d/init.d that starts the NFS daemons.

eg:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfslock

You can use this file to start, stop, restart and check the status of the daemons relating to NFS

eg: (from /etc/rc.d/init.d)
./nfslock start
./nfslock stop
./nfslock restart
./nfslock status

If the NFS daemons are not starting check to see if there are any entries in /etc/rc.d/rc[0-6].d relating to these files:

find /etc/rc.d -name *nfs*

Links to the script for startup begin with S and 2 digits eg: S14nfslock
Links to the script for shutdown begin with K and 2 digits eg: K86nfslock

The different directories relate to different run levels.