Hi,

I am having a Linux 7.2 as Server

Today we bought another x64 bit INTEL server & I loaded Red Hat Enterprise 4.0 ES on it.

When i try to mount the FS, the 7.2 server starts giving error as

svc : unknown error [3]

& is not available. All the users get authenticated on the 7.2 server so it can't be down even for 1 sec.

How can I connect the new 64 bit Linux Server in Network & mount the FS without disturbing the 7.2 Server

Thanks in advance

Regards,

Manoj

You left out some key details. Installing a new server should have no impact on existing server (unless you used the SAME IP for both).

Your comments about mounting filesystem make me think you are trying to do an nfs mount of a filesystem FROM the RH 7 server TO the new RH EL 4 server? Is that correct?

If so:
1) What do you have in /etc/exports of RH 7 server?
2) What do you have in /etc/fstab of RH EL 4 server? (Or if doing automount what is in that config?)

If not:
What filesystem are you trying to mount?
Where are you trying to mount it?
What is the fstab entry for it?

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Well the error I get is

mount to NFS server 'dahlia' failed: server is down
mount: backgrounding "dahlia:/VIPLhomes"

Regards,.

Manoj

Sorry i forgot to mention

I can ping / telnet the server

Regards,

Manoj

Well you didn't answer the follow up questions but you did give information that suggests what your issue is.

If you can ping and telnet to the server then it is up. However ftp tells you its "down" which means that nfs can't communicate to the nfsd daemon so what is actually "down" is the nfsd daemon on dahlia rather than the host itself.

This means you may not have nfs service running.

On dahlia type: ps -ef |grep nfsd
If you see no entries this means you don't have it running.

Just type "service nfs start" to start it then do the "ps -ef |grep nfsd" again.

Note that the above still requires that you have entries in /etc/exports on dahlia to share out the filesystem. Do "man exports" and "man exportfs" for details.

Hi Dear,

Thanks for all the support. Well nowtheproblem is it has mounted the file system.

But on the x64 bit server if I do host-name the output I get is : rhw2k

But I was able tomount by the host name : abc-nge8h07mon

So now if I want to change the server name from abc-* to rhw2k what should I do. I am re-writing that when i type hostname I get : rhw2k.

So i don't know from where it is taking the abc-* entry. I want the name of the server to be rhw2k & not abc-*

Regards,

MAnoj