How do you serve files over ipv6?

AlucardZero · 04-05-2011, 09:17 AM

I (naively, it turns out) assumed that Linux supported NFS over ipv6. Well, not even RHEL 6 nor SLES 11.1 do, apparently. So I need a way to serve files to a few ipv6-only clients (all RHEL5 so far) from Linux servers (both SLES 11.1 so far).

I successfully mounted an ipv6 Samba share from a RHEL6 client to the SLES 11.1 server, but my RHEL5 hosts, even with samba3x-*-3.5.4 installed, return the following when using the ipv6 address (ipv4 works):

Code:

# mount -t cifs -o guest //server.example.com/share /mnt
mount error(22): Invalid argument

How is one supposed to share files over ipv6 on enterprise OSes?

zordrak · 04-05-2011, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlucardZero

I (naively, it turns out) assumed that Linux supported NFS over ipv6. Well, not even RHEL 6 nor SLES 11.1 do, apparently. So I need a way to serve files to a few ipv6-only clients (all RHEL5 so far) from Linux servers (both SLES 11.1 so far).

I successfully mounted an ipv6 Samba share from a RHEL6 client to the SLES 11.1 server, but my RHEL5 hosts, even with samba3x-*-3.5.4 installed, return the following when using the ipv6 address (ipv4 works):

Code:

# mount -t cifs -o guest //server.example.com/share /mnt
mount error(22): Invalid argument

How is one supposed to share files over ipv6 on enterprise OSes?

I'm not sure about the extent of IPv6 support of RHEL and SLES but surely that should be "-o username=guest"?