NFS.

Does anyone know how to test if Nfs is working. I've followed the instructions but I would like to see something appearing in my file manager. Nothing so far.

Hmm; not much info here to go by.
Which OS?
Which instructions / steps?

From NFS server:
cat /etc/exports

Is service running?
Is firewall setup (on server) to allow NFS traffic (from clients)?

What is output of:
showmount -e <nfs_server>

Please provide output in [/code] tags

Using Slack 14.2 on server and laptop. Following https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:ne...nd_dirty_setup.

bash-4.2$ cat /etc/exports
# See exports(5) for a description.
# This file contains a list of all directories exported to other computers.
# It is used by rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd.
/nfs_share 192.168.1.1/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)
# Allow export of root file system to LAPTOP with read/write and root access
/               LAPTOP(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) \
                LAPTOP-W(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
/music          LAPTOP(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,nohide) \
                LAPTOP-W(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,nohide)

.

Not sure how to setup firewall for Nfs.

bash-4.2# showmount -e
Export list for divali:
/nfs_share 192.168.1.1/24
/music     LAPTOP-W.<your,LAPTOP.<your
/          LAPTOP-W.<your,LAPTOP.<your.

Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by Stalfonso2 bash-4.2# showmount -e Export list for divali: /nfs_share 192.168.1.1/24 /music LAPTOP-W.<your,LAPTOP.<your / LAPTOP-W.<your,LAPTOP.<your. Hope this helps.

I would like to clarify; above output of "showmount -e", is that from your client?
If not, please run that from client.
If you get the results, then try to mount; from client:

sudo mount <NFS_server>:/nfs_share /nfs_share

From client:

bash-4.3# mount <NFS_server>:/nfs_share /nfs_share
bash: NFS_server: No such file or directory

No output from showmount -e from client.

Originally Posted by Stalfonso2 From client: bash-4.3# mount <NFS_server>:/nfs_share /nfs_share bash: NFS_server: No such file or directory No output from showmount -e from client.

For the first command, you'd need to replace <NFS_server>:/nfs_share with your specific server information. NFS_server should be the IP address of the machine that is hosting your NFS shares and then the /nfs_share portion should be one of the folders you're sharing. The second /nfs_share in that command would be a local folder that you want to use to access the share, and that folder needs to already exist and your user would need to have access to it.

With the showmount -e command, you would want to run this on the client system and after the -e, you would need to put the IP address of the server, something like below, replacing the XX with the final octect of your IP address.

showmount -e 192.168.1.XX

If you are running a firewall you need to:

Allow TCP and UDP port 2049 for NFS.
Allow TCP and UDP port 111 (rpcbind/sunrpc).

/nfs_share 192.168.1.1/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

Make sure you are using your actual network IP address range.

 mount <NFS_server>:/nfs_share /nfs_share

Are you using your hostname or IP address for the nfs server. Try using its IP address.

mount -t nfs Server_IP:/nfs_share nfs_share

Thank you for your information. I think I shall start over again from the beginning. I shall let you know how I get on.