Re: [TCLUG:15107] nfs exports

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>]

mount the drive first (i.e. /mnt/tape) and then export the mount point (i.e.
/mnt/tape).

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <carls@agritech.com>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 2:29 PM
Subject: [TCLUG:15107] nfs exports


>         I'm trying to devise a recovery-from-backup scheme for my network.
>         the theory is; if a machine dies; all I should have to do is
insert
> a tomsrtbt disk into the new machine; boot from that; nfs-mount the tape
> drive on a server; and restore from the last backup tape over nfs.
>         this is what I thought I had heard of people doing.
>
>         however, I can't seem to export the tape drive (/dev/st0) as an
nfs
> export. the client always says:
> mount: <serverIP>:/dev/st0 failed, reason given by server; Permission
denied.
>
> on the server:
>         /var/lib/nfs/xtab seems to show it as an available mount point;
>         but /proc/fs/nfs/exports shows nothing. :(
>
>         if I do a exportfs -av <IPaddress of client>:/dev/st0; it
complains
> about /dev/st0 not being a directory.
>         I've chmod'ed /dev/st0 to 664 (instead of the 660 it used to be);
> wondering if that would make a difference.
>         I've made sure portmapper is running; and allowed connections to
it
> (from our subnet) in /etc/hosts.allow
>         I've started and stopped and restarted nfs several times
>
> this is using knfsd on a RH 6.1 box.
>
> could it be that nfs refuses to export a device?
>
> my only other experience with NFS has been on a RH 5.2 box... which seemed
> to be infinitely easier. (then again, I wasn't trying the same thing...)
>
>
> Carl Soderstrom
> System Administrator    307 Brighton Ave.
> Minnesota DHIA         Buffalo, MN
> carls@agritech.com      (612) 682-1091
>
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