hello
i have a fairly simple network consisting of three machines; 1 desktop and 2 laptops, all running redhat 7.2. i'd like to keep all my data on the desktop and use NFS to allow the laptops to access any necessary data off the desktop. i've read the howtos on nfs, but am running into some problems.

first off, i understood that you can use the hostname of the clients in the /etc/exports file like so:

/pub client1(rw,no_root_squash)

but when i export them (~# exportfs -av) i get an error saying client1 doesn't have an inet-address. though this isn't my big problem, i can use IPs rather than hosts.

my big problem is when i attempt to mount from the client (mount 192.168.1.50:/pub /mnt/pub) i get an error about access refused. my /etc/hosts.deny file is blank, and my /etc/hosts.allow file (both files on the server) looks like this:

# 192.168.1.53 = client1
portmap: 192.168.1.53
lockd: 192.168.1.53
rquotad: 192.168.1.53
mountd: 192.168.1.53
statd: 192.168.1.53

i've tried everything and can't seem to find an answer. please help!!!

thank you. :-)

I have tried to get this to work my self but without any luck.
I think it might have to do with inet or xinet and their config files.
I think that the specification for the nfs is missing, haven't made serious try to fix it though.

Dear Friend,

You have 3 machines 2 on laptop and 1 is desktop i am supposing some setting here

IP Address Machine Name Type
======== ========== ===
192.168.0.1 machine1 Desktop
192.168.0.2 machine2 Laptop
192.168.0.3 machine3 Laptop

Machine1 Setting
============
first of all edit /etc/hosts file on machine1 and give this entry


192.168.0.1 machine1
192.168.0.2 machine2
192.168.0.3 machine3


edit /etc/exports file and put entry here

/pub machine2(rw),machine3(rw)

and restart nfs deamon /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs restart

Machine2 Setting
============
first of all edit /etc/hosts file on machine2 and give this entry

192.168.0.1 machine1
192.168.0.2 machine2
192.168.0.3 machine3

edit /etc/exports file and put entry here

/pub machine1(rw),machine3(rw)

and restart nfs deamon /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs restart

Machine3 Setting
============
first of all edit /etc/hosts file on machine3 and give this entry

192.168.0.1 machine1
192.168.0.2 machine2
192.168.0.3 machine3

edit /etc/exports file and put entry here

/pub machine1(rw),machine2(rw)

and restart nfs deamon /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs restart

Now u are on machine1 and want to mount machine2 's pub
machine1# mkdir machine2
machine1# mount machien2:/pub ./machine2
machine1# cd machine2
machine1# ls

Thanks and Regards,

John Lee

thristydesert@hotmail.com

The problem is that this dosen't always work.
It least not in Red Hat.
I have done these settings but can't still get it working.
Tried yesterday and was able to mount a directory as nfs but only locally.
When trying from the lan I got refused, despite the fact that I have given access to my subnet 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0

hello everyone. thanx for the help offered, but i was able to fix the problem on my own. turns out that my default ipchains settings were getting in the way. for anyone interested, the way around it (at least temporarily) is running the following command from the server AND client machines:

ipchains -F

this will flush all your ipchains rules. keep in mind you'll wanna do this every time you reboot, as ipchains are reinitiated at startup.

Can you just put that "ipchains -F" in the rc.local or boot.local script?
lynch

Ipchains is used by the default firewall built into Redhat. So by doing the "ipchains -F" you arein affect getting rid of the firewall til you reboot. Yes you can add that line to a script or a better way if you aren't using the built in firewall is to do the following under Redhat

rpm -e lokkit
rpm -e ipchains

this will completely remove ipchains. You can also run setup and disable ipchains on bootup. If you are running Redhat 7.x then you are more than likely trying to use iptables instead of ipchains and therefore need to disable/remove ipchains.