From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 09:01:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F3016A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:01:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0597E43D3F for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:01:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [IPv6???1] (localhost.daemonsecurity.com [127.0.0.1]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 794E9FD01F; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:01:30 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41E24463.3080207@locolomo.org> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:01:23 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041114 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Marella References: <1105332185.1028.4.camel@p4> In-Reply-To: <1105332185.1028.4.camel@p4> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS export of evolution X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:01:34 -0000 Robert Marella wrote: > Hello > > I am not sure where this problem should go so I am posting to > -questions. > > I have a SOHO set up with several computers running a mix of FreeBSD 5.3 > Release and Stable. I have an NFS server set up so that data can be > shared at all of the computers. > > I would like to have the ability to retrieve mail from any of the > computers I happen to be logged into. I have tried various permutations > of exporting /home, /home/reg-user, and /home/reg-user/.evolution and I > always get the same error when trying to read mail. > > I am able to mount the directory(ies) on the client computers and am > able to call up evolution and see the messages but when I try to read > any message I get this error > > ****************************************************************** > Error while Retrieving message 1292 (this number varies of course) > > Failed to get lock using fcntl(2): Operation not supported. > ****************************************************************** > > I read the man page for fcntl but I didn't get any help out of it. It > was way over my head. > > Here is the important bits from /etc/exports > > /home/reg-user/.evolution -alldirs notebook.my.local.lan > > I have also tried -maproot with out any luck. I would think this is > possible but I guess I haven't set up the right conditions or options. > Can anyone help me out? The error appears to be with filelocking not mounting. Filelocking is a problem on NFS as many independent systems might try to get write access to the same file at the same time. Do you have: rpc_lockd_enable="YES" # Run NFS rpc.lockd needed for client/server. rpc_statd_enable="YES" # Run NFS rpc.statd needed for client/server. in your rc.conf? Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2