nfs problem (was: ntfs problem)

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Mar 8 08:48:04 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 12:40 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote:

> I am having one 2 debian pcs and 1 FC3 pc in my office.I want to share
> some files from debian pcs so that users on FC3 can access it.I  can
> see the files by giving command
> 
> showmount -e 192.168.1.56. 
> 
> But whenever i try to mount that share it gives error
> 
> mount -t nfs 192.168.1.56:/ctn  /ctn
> 
> the /etc/exports file on one of the debian :
> 
> 
> /home/agrover           192.168.1.55(rw,sync,no_wdelay,squash uids-0-99)
> /ctn                          *(rw,async,no_root_squash)
> /var/log                      192.168.1.55(ro,all_squash)
> /raju                          192.168.1.55(rw,squash uids=0-99)
> /home/mverma            192.168.1.55(rw,squash uids=0-99)
> /home/rajat             192.168.1.55(rw,squash uids=0-99)
> /home/raju              192.168.1.55(rw,squash uids=0-99)
> 
> 
> 
> the error i get is 
> 
>  mount to NFS server '192.168.1.56' failed: server is down.The nfs
> ,portmap and rpc services are running on debain as i can see the
> process id with grep command.

Can the debian server mount the filesystem back to itself?

# mkdir /mnt/tmp
# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.56:/ctn  /mnt/tmp

That should establish whether the nfs server is working properly.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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