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clickit

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From: Athens, Hellas

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 93

nfs don't work for me

hi to all,

after i have read some posts about nfs and how faster is than samba, i decided to experiment with it
i did both combinations :
1st: nfs client on linux and nfs server on windows via Services for Unix v3.5 <=== this worked fine
and the opposite : nfs server on linux and nfs client on windows  <=== this didn't worked
the problem is that i cannot see at all linux share in windows "NFS network", allthough i can succesfully ping machines from each other

here are the guidelines i followed : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nfs  http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Access_NFS_via_SFU and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=310168

here is the one and only entry in /etc/exports
/share 192.168.1.101(async,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,rw,nohide)

thanks in advance

Last edited by clickit (2007-11-12 07:54:34)

clickit

Member

From: Athens, Hellas

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 93

Re: nfs don't work for me

one thing is for sure
Microsoft SFU cannot connect to linux nfs server, cannot even see it through network
after that, i tried another nfs client software i found, Omni-NFS Enterprise, that worked flawless
but it isn't a freeware, damn !!!
anyway, if somebody cares, after some tests i did, here is my conclusion about comparing nfs and samba : i didn't find any big differences at transfering data from one pc to the other
at the other hand, maybe there are settings to optimize both softwares, server and client, or connection therefore better transfering data

chendler

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Registered: 2007-03-05

Posts: 13

Re: nfs don't work for me

hello I couldn't make SFU to work with my NFS server too, after 3h of searching I found a solution:

[chendler@synapse archive]$ cat /etc/conf.d/nfs
# Number of servers to be started up by default
NFSD_OPTS=8

# Options to pass to rpc.mountd
# e.g. MOUNTDOPTS="-p 32767"
#MOUNTD_OPTS="--no-nfs-version 1 --no-nfs-version 2"
MOUNTD_OPTS="--nfs-version 3"

# Options to pass to rpc.statd
# N.B. statd normally runs on both client and server, and run-time
# options should be specified accordingly. Specifically, the Arch
# NFS init scripts require the --no-notify flag on the server,
# but not on the client e.g.
# STATD_OPTS="--no-notify -p 32765 -o 32766" -> server
# STATD_OPTS="-p 32765 -o 32766" -> client
STATD_OPTS="--no-notify"

# Options to pass to sm-notify
# e.g. SMNOTIFY_OPTS="-p 32764"
SMNOTIFY_OPTS=""

[chendler@synapse archive]$

now works and I'm happy with that

jam

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From: Chile

Registered: 2007-02-17

Posts: 5

Re: nfs don't work for me

unbelievable! three days trying to figure out what the problem was.... why nobody puts that with bold letters on the how to'es