Trouble with NFS cant figure out why on SLES 10

mlkshake · 02-13-2008, 01:12 AM

I've been working on trying to get NFS to work for a long time but with no success. I can get it to connect to itself and share with itself but not with my other computer running the same distro on the same lan. I used yast to configure the server and client with the firewall off. I've gone through every tutorial I could find and no success. If you need more info let me know. And if anyone has had trouble like this and can give me a little guidance to correcting it. Thank you so much for any help.

billymayday · 02-13-2008, 01:20 AM

What do you have in your exports file?

jschiwal · 02-13-2008, 02:51 AM

For some reason, after upgrading and rebooting, I had the same problem with a previously working nfs setup. I changed the /etc/exports wildcard from "192.168.1.*" to "192.168.1.0/255.255.255.128" which fixed the problem. If you have an /etc/networks entry, you may be able to use the network name instead but I haven't tried it.

mlkshake · 02-13-2008, 04:19 PM

exports file says "/root/Desktop/share *(fsid=0,ro,sync,root_squash)"

I can mount it on the client by typing it into the terminal.

jschiwal · 02-13-2008, 06:59 PM

Why are you sharing a directory in root's home directory. That doesn't make any sense. Only root has access, and should be connecting via ssh.

mlkshake · 02-13-2008, 11:37 PM

lol. Im going to change it now. It probably doesn't make any sense because I am completely new to running my own linux server, but thats the reason why I posted in the linux newbie forum

fixed that and it still wont find any server.
anyone have a simple step by step guide so I can try it again.

billymayday · 02-14-2008, 12:16 AM

Usually a good source of info

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...ccess_with_NFS

jschiwal · 02-14-2008, 01:00 AM

OpenSUSE's YaST2 has an nfs-server wizard that makes configuring the exports file a snap. SLED probably has the same wizard.