Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:44:37 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Marc Wandschneider <marcw@lanfear.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: NFS primer? Message-ID: <XFMail.991221094437.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <002001bf4b32$148c24c0$230a0cd0@SHURIKEN>
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On 20-Dec-99 Marc Wandschneider wrote: > > > > I'm trying to find some information how to set up an NFS server and > clients. I'd like to know the difference between hard mounting things and > using 'amd', etc ... > > The man pages give a good idea of how individual programs and things work, > but not how it all fits together, and what needs to be set up when. All my > attempts at getting it going thus far have given "Cannot MNT RPC: RPC: > Program not registered". > > Any suggestions? Do you also mean NIS? (man nis), then look into daemonnews.org. There was a 'NIS Startup Instructions' article sometime ago. For amd I just this weekend got it up and running. Not much to do IF you do it correctly! I've had my fair share of troubles with it.. Hard mounting (injecting lines into /etc/fstab) is OK if all boxes are up but should your farm go down they may boot waiting for some other box to get nfs up and all sorts of problems... A 'soft' mount using amd is much cleaner as the mount is done on an 'as needed' basis. Feel free to mail me privately should you have any questions. /M man exports gives you the syntax. Also keep mountd and nfsd running. Send a kill -1 to them (one or both?) if you have updated /etc/exports. Then you should be able to mount a la 'mount vanheden:/home'. You also should have a peek at man portmap for this to work. The portmapper is a kind of superserver that listens for a number of numbered services and spawns off these services as required. (Much like a INT 21 in the MS-DOS environment, excpet is networked, does more than that etc) /M again ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.1 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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