I am trying to set up a NFS share everything is ok apart from the fact that the NFS filesystem is not supported??? yet the NFS and associated daemons are up and running.
kept getting the 'mount: RPC: Program not registered' the only thing I could find was.
that NFS was missing from /proc/filesystems

[root@localhost /]# cat /proc/filesystems
nodev rootfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev sockfs
nodev tmpfs
nodev shm
nodev pipefs
ext2
nodev ramfs
iso9660
nodev devpts
ext3
nodev usbdevfs
nodev usbfs
nodev autofs
[root@localhost /]#

How can I add NFS to this list? do I hjave to recompile kernel? or can I do it using mkfs?

TIA

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I imagine you're going to need to tinker with your kernel. If NFS isn't in /proc/filesystems, it means that your kernel doesn't recognize it. I think, however, that you can compile NFS as a module. Check in 'make xconfig' or 'make menuconfig' whether NFS support can be built as a module. If so, go ahead and do that, and then do 'make modules_install'. Then you should be able to modprobe nfs (or whatever the module winds up being called, chack in your /lib/modules directory if unsure) and things should work. You could also just recompile your kernel with NFS support.

Hi thanks for reply, opened xconfig and under network filesystems NFS was a 'Y'
so I checked and the module nfs.o is in /lib/modules/2.4.20-30.9/kernel/fs/nfs

so I /sbin/depmod -a followed by /proc cat filesystems and got the same as before??

weird

B

I think you are following a red herring. The "RPC: Program not registered" error generally means that your NFS server is not serving.

To view what NFS shares are available from your server, invoke:
showmount -e <your.server>

If you get the same error as above, and the NFS server is running on your server box, then you need to make sure you have the appropriate entries for your shares in /etc/exports. Once these are in place, you need to invoke:
exportfs -a

After that, once again invoke:
showmount -e <your.server>

Hmmm I found that I hadn't done the file type -t nfs once I did that everything was sweet.
I have been using a KVM switch and it got a little confusing I guess

[root@localhost root]# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.3:/usr/local/shared /mnt/shared
[root@localhost root]#

Thanks for replies I learnt some stuff

B