nfs mount problems in RedHat Enterprise 3

Kave · 10-05-2006, 09:46 AM

I have a Mac OS X 10.4.8 machine sitting in my server room where I have an nfs share. I can mount this share from other Mac OS X clients as well as an SGI IRix box. The problem is my three Redhat Enterprise 3 servers. They can't mount the share whatever I try. Any hint's to what this can be?
I just run ]# mount fileserver:/Volumes/Raid /mnt/printempo2

Any ideas?

PTrenholme · 10-05-2006, 10:11 AM

Just guessing (since you don't tell us what error you receive), but adding a "-t ntfs -o ro,users" to your mount command might help.

Does RHE3 include NTFS support? (I ask because Fedora does not include it, and I don't use RHE3.)

Edit: Also, check the syntax of the fileserver:/Volumes/Raid part of your mount command. The ":" is usually a soft break, and unusual in a path. Perhaps you need something like //fileserver/Volumes/Raid where fileserver is defined in your /etc/hosts file. (Again, just a guess, based on samba syntax.)

Kave · 10-05-2006, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by PTrenholme

Just guessing (since you don't tell us what error you receive), but adding a "-t ntfs -o ro,users" to your mount command might help.

Does RHE3 include NTFS support? (I ask because Fedora does not include it, and I don't use RHE3.)

Edit: Also, check the syntax of the fileserver:/Volumes/Raid part of your mount command. The ":" is usually a soft break, and unusual in a path. Perhaps you need something like //fileserver/Volumes/Raid where fileserver is defined in your /etc/hosts file. (Again, just a guess, based on samba syntax.)

To my knowledge you don't get NTFS support with Enterprise either.

I don't get an error, it just sits there without returning the prompt.
Maybe if I wait for more than 10 minutes it will timeout..
It's nfs syntax to use hostname:/path, otherwise it won't know it's a remote machine.

PTrenholme · 10-05-2006, 02:27 PM

OK, I don't use NFS so I didn't recognize the syntax.

The "just sits there" symptom seem typical of a system waiting for a network response. Are there NFS tools you can use to verify that the fileserver is available? (e.g., nfsstat, and pidof nfsd to make sure you're running the NFS client daemon.)

Also, you might want to look at /etc/hosts to be sure you've mapped fileserver to the correct address (unless you're using an absolute path, or you're sure your DNS correctly resolves fileserver).

Looking at the man mount under nfs, I notice that there's a timeo= option that might enable you to get a faster response if the connection's not working.

Also, looking at the man nfs information, I notice that (on my Fedora system) NFS version 2 is the default, so you should confirm the version of the NFS protocol being run on your server, and adjust your mount command accordingly.