NFS hangs at mounting

d00bid00b · 06-30-2006, 07:10 PM

I am wanting to set up an NFS, to share files between my desktop [server] (192.168.1.40) and my laptop [client] (192.168.1.20).

After pouring through numerous tutorials and searching through these forums, and after ensuring that the relevant daemons (rpc.portmap and rpc.nfsd) are running, I have done the following:

On the server (192.168.1.40), in /etc/exports, I added

Code:

/home/myfile/file-to-share 192.168.1.40/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

Thereafter, I ran exportfs -ra
and restarted the daemons for good measure

I then edited /etc/hosts.deny:

Code:

portmap: ALL

and /etc/hosts.allow:

Code:

portmap: 192.168.1.40

Then on the client side, I entered:

Code:

mount -t nfs -o rw 192.168.1.40:/home/myfile/file-to-share /mnt/file-to-share

This leads to an indefinite hanging ... and I can't kill the process either. It requires a reboot to shut down.

To deal with this, I have played around with the /etc/exports file, by editing so that it reads

Code:

...(rw,async,no_root_squash)

as well as

Code:

...(rw,sync,all_squash)

and even

Code:

...(rw,async,all_squash)

all of which have the same effect: the client/laptop just hangs ...

So, now I am stuck and have exhausted my options and need some help to get through this. I have googled quite extensively, but seem to have covered pretty much all of what google throws back.

Any suggestions for a fix?

Thanks

Bruce Hill · 07-01-2006, 02:02 AM

Please pardon the short response, but I think Setting up NFS on Slackware is the tutorial you need.

I see some things, but since Eric already went to the trouble to write this, I'd rather link you. If you follow that guide, and still have problems, post back. It works flawlessly for me here. His Samba works for my Windoze OSes to mount, also.

d00bid00b · 07-01-2006, 03:51 AM

Hi Chinaman

Thanks for the link. This was one of the many tutorials I was working with last night. Anyway, I revisited it and followed his instructions and am now left with a "permission denied" message and an unmounted nfs.

It would be helpful if someone were able to critique what it is that I have done as listed on my original post, that way I can retrace my steps.

TIA

Bruce Hill · 07-01-2006, 05:07 AM

Okay, please post verbosely the output of:

From the server:
"cat /etc/exports"
"showmount -e <NFS_servername>"
"df -h"
"id" as user
"/sbin/ifconfig"
"/sbin/route -n"
"ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc.nfsd"

From the client:
"cat /etc/fstab"
"id" as user
"/sbin/ifconfig"
"/sbin/route -n"
"ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc.portmap"

PDock · 07-01-2006, 07:11 AM

Don't mean to step in the middle but..
On the server looks like you are exporting the directory to the server itself ie xxx.40. Try changing /etc/exports to the laptop xxx.20

dunric · 07-01-2006, 11:49 AM

PDock has a good point, you have wrong IP address in /etc/exports and in /etc/hosts.allow. In addition default and correct port(service) name for hosts.allow is sunrpc not portmap. See /etc/services.
Also make sure rpc.portmap is running on the client side too.