Question

Getting NFS right..

Asked by: itnifl

I am trying to set up NFS. But it's not working correctly.

This is my /etc/exports:
/home/SDB1   192.168.1.100(ro,async,no_subtree_check)
/home/Sources       192.168.1.100(ro,async,no_subtree_check)

This is my /etc/fstab at the client:
192.168.1.102:/home/SDB1     /home/NFS1      nfs     defaults        0       0
192.168.1.102:/home/Sources /home/NFS2      nfs     defaults        0       0

Also tried:
mount -t nfs -o defaults 192.168.1.102:/home/Sources/home/NFS2

I get the error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.102:/home/Sources,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
       need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

All firewalls are taken down, there are read rights for everyone on the share point and down the tree. Portmaps, nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server is installed. Nfs has been restarted after /etc/exports edit, without errors.

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2009-11-07 at 01:13:26ID24880179
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by: medveddPosted on 2009-11-07 at 05:36:15ID: 25766267

You're exporting filesystems as ro, but trying to mount them as rw.
Try mount -t nfs -o ro 192.168.1.102:/home/Sources  /home/NFS2


 

by: georgekrajPosted on 2009-11-07 at 05:41:59ID: 25766283

In your /etc/exports try give the access to entire network - 192.168.1.0 and observe.


This is my /etc/exports:
/home/SDB1   192.168.1.0(ro,async,no_subtree_check)
/home/Sources       192.168.1.0(ro,async,no_subtree_check)

 

by: chenry334Posted on 2009-11-07 at 07:26:06ID: 25766577

What distribution of Linux are you running?  Are you sure you have the utilities/kernel module to mount NFS shares?  In Ubuntu/Debian I believe the package is nfs-common - ie: apt-get install nfs-common.

Have you checked the logs on the NFS server?  If it were a permission problem in your exports file you would see something like:

"failed, reason given by server: Permission denied" on the client
and something like:
"refused mount request" on the server

 

by: itniflPosted on 2009-11-07 at 10:23:35ID: 25767387

I forgot to install nfs on the client :) (but it was all installed and ready on the server)
At the end of the installation, the system tries to start netatalk but fails:
Starting Netatalk services (this will take a while): nbp_rgstr: Connection went over timelimit
Can't register Deb-i86a:Workstation@*

I then try:
Deb-i86a:~# mount -t nfs -o ro 192.168.1.102:/home/Sources  /home/NFS2
mount.nfs: 192.168.1.102:/home/Sources failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

All the other setup is done as suggested by the experts in this thread.

Logs on the client:
user.log:Nov  7 19:04:17 Deb-i86a if-up.d/mountnfs[eth7]: if-up.d/mountnfs[eth7]: lock /var/run/network/mountnfs exist, not mounting
user.log:Nov  7 19:04:17 Deb-i86a if-up.d/mountnfs[eth4]: if-up.d/mountnfs[eth4]: lock /var/run/network/mountnfs exist, not mounting
syslog:Nov  7 19:04:17 Deb-i86a if-up.d/mountnfs[eth7]: if-up.d/mountnfs[eth7]: lock /var/run/network/mountnfs exist, not mounting
syslog:Nov  7 19:04:17 Deb-i86a if-up.d/mountnfs[eth4]: if-up.d/mountnfs[eth4]: lock /var/run/network/mountnfs exist, not mounting
syslog:Nov  7 19:04:45 Deb-i86a kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
syslog:Nov  7 19:04:45 Deb-i86a kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory
syslog:Nov  7 19:06:30 Deb-i86a nfsd[3197]: nfssvc: Input/output error

Logs on the server:
Nothing special.

The client runs Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 \n \l with 256 Mb memory as a virtual machine in terminal text based mode only. No GUI.



 

by: chenry334Posted on 2009-11-07 at 10:56:28ID: 25767555

I'm not 100% sure about what georgekraj posted - I've always put a subnet mask on my Linux exports declarations if I wanted to open it up to a subnet.  This behavior could be different across different platforms - ie: solaris, linux, etc.  ie:

/home/SDB1   192.168.1.0/24(ro,async,no_subtree_check)
/home/Sources       192.168.1.0/24(ro,async,no_subtree_check)

What is the server running?  If it's Debian/Ubuntu look at /var/log/daemon.log - if the client is getting a permission denied error somewhere on the server the mount request should be logged

 

by: itniflPosted on 2009-11-08 at 00:40:57ID: 31651345

To get things to work, I;
*installed nfs on the client also

*allowed the whole subnet to connect, whe exporting the filesystem vi /etc/exports. Hence:
/home/Sources       192.168.1.0/24(ro,async,no_subtree_check)

*mounted the share on the client as read only and nolock. If I tried to mount it just with read only, I got this error:
mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking.
   Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd.

Please comment further if you wish.

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