From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 20:42:30 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 7287116A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:42:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.socal.rr.com (ms-smtp-03-qfe0.socal.rr.com [66.75.162.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473D643D54 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:42:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marella@hawaii.rr.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain (cpe-66-8-190-99.hawaii.rr.com [66.8.190.99])j0AKgRuY024086; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:42:27 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Marella To: Erik Norgaard In-Reply-To: <41E24463.3080207@locolomo.org> References: <1105332185.1028.4.camel@p4> <41E24463.3080207@locolomo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:45:18 -1000 Message-Id: <1105389918.813.2.camel@p4> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine 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 20:42:30 -0000 On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:01 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > 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? Eric, No I do not have that in my rc.conf. I tried adding it and got the same results. Should I try to change the values to ="NO" ?? Thanks for responding. Robert