hello
i am having a problem setting up nfs server \ client on my two fedora 10 machines .
ive read a lot of stuff online , but i cant get it to work .
can u provide me with a good tutorial for fedora 10 ?
thank you very much .

What exactly is the problem? What have you done so far?

well i followed all the instructions in :
http://optics.csufresno.edu/~kriehn/...howto/nfs.html
but when i want to mount :
mount -t nfs 192.168.0.4:/home/user /tmp/user

i get : mount failed .

is there something special for fedora 10 that i have to change ?
thank you very much

Let's check if everything is running:
If you could type the output of:
1) rpcinfo -p (from the server)
2) rpcinfo -p server_ip (from the client)

this is what i got when i ran : rpcinfo -p on the server :
program vers proto port service
100000 4 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 3 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 4 udp 111 portmapper
100000 3 udp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
100024 1 udp 42557 status
100024 1 tcp 57494 status
100011 1 udp 773 rquotad
100011 2 udp 773 rquotad
100011 1 tcp 776 rquotad
100011 2 tcp 776 rquotad
100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
100003 3 udp 2049 nfs
100003 4 udp 2049 nfs
100021 1 udp 4001 nlockmgr
100021 3 udp 4001 nlockmgr
100021 4 udp 4001 nlockmgr
100021 1 tcp 4001 nlockmgr
100021 3 tcp 4001 nlockmgr
100021 4 tcp 4001 nlockmgr
100003 2 tcp 2049 nfs
100003 3 tcp 2049 nfs
100003 4 tcp 2049 nfs
100005 1 udp 45202 mountd
100005 1 tcp 47207 mountd
100005 2 udp 45202 mountd
100005 2 tcp 47207 mountd
100005 3 udp 45202 mountd
100005 3 tcp 47207 mountd


but when i ran : rpcinfo -p server_ip on my client i got :
rpcinfo : cant contact portmapper : RPC : Unknown host

thx again for fast replies .

Have you edited tcp_wrappers on the server?


In /etc/hosts.deny


And /etc/hosts.allow

192.168.0.1 is just an example - obviously you need the ip address of the client

Also on the server you can use system-config-securitylevel to make sure that the ports responsible for nfs are open.

What's your /etc/sysconfig/nfs?

edit: I don't think you will need the portmap lines in allow/deny.conf files. It was used on CentOS - Fedora uses rpcbind.

my hosts.deny / allow look exactly like that .
in my system-config-securitylevel i only have the line : --service=ssh

in my /etc/sysconfig/nfs everything is commented , except for the lines i added according to the tutorial i linked above .

Thank you very much .

You need to tick NFS4 to open the ports

Can you post the output of you sysconfig/nfs? Sorry, I'm being lazy

#
# Define which protocol versions mountd
# will advertise. The values are "no" or "yes"
# with yes being the default
#MOUNTD_NFS_V1="no"
#MOUNTD_NFS_V2="no"
#MOUNTD_NFS_V3="no"
#
#
# Path to remote quota server. See rquotad(8)
#RQUOTAD="/usr/sbin/rpc.rquotad"
# Port rquotad should listen on.
#RQUOTAD_PORT=875
# Optinal options passed to rquotad
#RPCRQUOTADOPTS=""
#
#
# Optional arguments passed to in-kernel lockd
#LOCKDARG=
# TCP port rpc.lockd should listen on.
#LOCKD_TCPPORT=32803
# UDP port rpc.lockd should listen on.
#LOCKD_UDPPORT=32769
#
#
# Optional arguments passed to rpc.nfsd. See rpc.nfsd(8)
# Turn off v2 and v3 protocol support
#RPCNFSDARGS="-N 2 -N 3"
# Turn off v4 protocol support
#RPCNFSDARGS="-N 4"
# Number of nfs server processes to be started.
# The default is 8.
#RPCNFSDCOUNT=8
# Stop the nfsd module from being pre-loaded
#NFSD_MODULE="noload"
#
#
# Optional arguments passed to rpc.mountd. See rpc.mountd(8)
#RPCMOUNTDOPTS=""
# Port rpc.mountd should listen on.
#MOUNTD_PORT=892
#
#
# Optional arguments passed to rpc.statd. See rpc.statd(8)
#STATDARG=""
# Port rpc.statd should listen on.
#STATD_PORT=662
# Outgoing port statd should used. The default is port
# is random
#STATD_OUTGOING_PORT=2020
# Specify callout program
#STATD_HA_CALLOUT="/usr/local/bin/foo"
#
#
# Optional arguments passed to rpc.idmapd. See rpc.idmapd(8)
#RPCIDMAPDARGS=""
#
# Set to turn on Secure NFS mounts.
#SECURE_NFS="yes"
# Optional arguments passed to rpc.gssd. See rpc.gssd(8)
#RPCGSSDARGS=""
# Optional arguments passed to rpc.svcgssd. See rpc.svcgssd(8)
#RPCSVCGSSDARGS=""
#

according to the tutorial is have to edit the following line :
STATD=PORT4000

Try specifying the following ports in /etc/sysconfig/nfs:
Then you need to open the following ports in your server firewall: 111- rpcbind uses it, 2049 - for NFS, and 4000-4004 for the above mentioned RPC services. I'm not sure if you need to open all of them. Perhaps, someone can correct me.