Re: Help needed

[Benjamin Jeeves <benjamin@benjamin76.plus.com>]

Hi

So what you are saying is that nfs server will not bind to one or more specify 
interfaces which would mean that you would have to do load balancing if you 
wanted it to work over two ethernet card YES/NO? if Yes then where is the 
best place to start?

Thank you

Benjamin Jeeves

On Wednesday 04 May 2005 13:26, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:06:20PM +0100, Benjamin Jeeves wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > This is the first time posting to this list so please understand if this
> > quistion has been posted before.
> >
> > I have one server with 4 ethernet card in all running on 192.168.1.*
> > network what i want to do is run nfs on.
> >
> > eth2 192.168.1.6 running nfs
> > eth3 192.168.1.7 running nfs
> >
> > eth2 would export samething like this /backup then /store.
> >
> > eth3 would export samething like this /folder3 /folder4
> >
> > but at this time all I can do is make it work on all of the ethernet
> > cards and only work on the first ethernet card eth0 for all requests.
> >
> > I have search gooogle and man pages but can not find anything or would I
> > need to do load balancing for this to work?
> >
> > I have tryed this in the /etc/exports file:
> > 192.168.1.6:/backup	192.168.1.12(rw,root_squash,sync)
> > 192.168.1.6:/store	192.168.1.12(rw,root_squash,sync)
> > 192.168.1.7:/folder3	192.168.1.14(rw,root_squash,sync)
> > 192.168.1.7:/folder4	192.168.1.14(rw,root_squash,sync)
> >
> > #mount 192.168.1.6:/mad-backup /backup
> >
> > But when i try to mount it on the client I get a this msg
> > mount: 192.168.1.6:/backup failed, reason given by server: Permission
> > denied
> >
> > please help me?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Benjamin Jeeves
>
> I believe that your export file is written incorrectly.  The export file
> lists directories to export, you can't use it to specify which interfaces
> on your server will serve those exports.  The NFS service is probably
> reading your exports file and interpreting 192.168.1.[6|7] as part of the
> path to export, so when you have a client try to mount 192.168.1.6:/backup,
> it fails, because /backup isn't actually exported, 192.168.1.6:/backup is. 
> Remove the leading ip addresses from your exports file and restart the
> service, and your mount will likely start to work just fine.
> Regards
> Neil
>
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