From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 25 14:27:09 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA05130 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:27:09 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA05122 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:27:03 -0800 Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03390; Wed, 25 Jan 95 23:17:32 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (XAA19233); Wed, 25 Jan 1995 23:18:51 +0059 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199501252219.XAA19233@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: NFS questions To: SMMCGEE@ncbc.ncbc.mn.org (Sean McGee) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 23:18:50 +0059 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Sean McGee" at Jan 25, 95 02:06:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1299 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm setting up my 2.0 machine as an NFS server and have a few > questions. > > 1. /etc/inetd.conf points all pcnfsd requests to /usr/libexec/rpc-pcnfsd > and I don't appear to have it. Does someone know where I can pick > it up??? It is in wcarchive.cdrom.com under the ports directory of FreeBSD-2.0. Should also be on the 2.0 CDROM. I can't check it, someone has borrowed my 2.0 CD and not brought it back yet :-). But you need that only if you are running pc-nfs clients. If you want to mount your disks on other unix machines, you have all necessary software in the base distribution. > 2. After running 'mountd' it returns a: > 'can't open /var/db/mountdtab' > Can someone explain this?? Do you have a /etc/exports file created ? > 3. I'm using a pc based NFS client on my network. Is there anything > special I will need to do to export, say, /usr ?? > ( maybe a copy of someone's /etc/exports would help) something like a line: /usr/src tandon specifies in my /etc/exports file that the filesystem /usr/src can be mounted on the machine "tandon". ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe