Can't mount NFS export
A. Lanza
alf at lanza-ti.com
Mon Oct 11 10:03:34 UTC 2004
Thanks Paul, i tried that and got it running now.
What's the purpose of exportfs? Should i issue that command whenever i
change exports in /etc/exports? I think that was the problem before...
I appreciate your help.
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 10:51, Paul Howarth wrote:
> A. Lanza wrote:
> > i have two machines running FC2 in the same LAN and i want to share
> > files between them. I'm used to do this in Windows environments through
> > shared folders. After reading some doc. it seems like NFS could be an
> > option to share files between machines.
> >
> > I have set up and running NFS server on the file server machine and i
> > have exported /home/alanza. The line in /etc/exports reads like this:
> >
> > /home/alanza (ro)
>
> Try changing it to this:
>
> /home/alanza *(ro,sync)
>
> Then run "exportfs -av" to re-export the filesystem.
>
> Make sure that services portmap, nfslock and nfs are running on your server.
>
> > Are there other ways to share files?
>
> Persevere with NFS, it's the best way.
>
> Paul.
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