Re: Battered in Brimingham. . .

[Andy Kennedy <akennedy@techmoninc.com>]

Andy Kennedy wrote:
> Okay, I've done this before -- hundreds of times. . . all with Slackware 
> -- the latest one was 10.2 (I think).  Before, I've never had to do any 
> configuration but just add the clients to the exports file, make sure 
> that NFS was built into the Linux kernel (with the TCP support for it) 
> -- then continue on my happy way with setting up my fstab in the client 
> to mount the shares at boot. . .
>
> HOWEVER,
> Now I'm working with an ARM system.  It took great pains to build all 
> the utils (on an external USB drive with a native compiler) needed so 
> that nfs-tools would build.  I believe that I have the tools configured 
> built correctly because I can, in my /etc/exports file, put the line:
> /www/flashcard 127.0.0.1(rw,no_root_squash,sync,insecure)
> then execute the command:
> mount 127.0.0.1:/www/flashcard /mnt
> and get a nice shiny new mount via NFS on my /mnt.
>
> Okay, this I tried after hours upon hours of attempting to get one of 
> two systems to mount /www/flashcard (1) a SBC with only PPP over async 
> and a null modem cable and (2) my host via a network connection.  The 
> results are the same -- the client reports that it "Cannot read super 
> block" after a long delay and the only thing in the server log file is 
> "authenticated mount request from ...".
>
> My first though:  I've screwed something up on the ARM. . . okay switch 
> gears and plug in my computer as the server, and another computer on the 
> network as the client.  Same results.
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> TIA,
> Andy
>
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Found it.  For anyone who may be searching for my solution there were 
two separate issues here:

1) Desktop -> Desktop via ethernet:
This issue was due to the fact that we currently don't have a DNS server 
providing local names.  After adding the host name to the /etc/hosts 
file, we were able to connect.

2) Desktop -> SBC via serial cable:
Unfortunately, the default install for the network configuration was 
all: PARANOID in /etc/host.deny.  I did do a vi /etc/host* but must have 
quit out before I got to the deny file. . .

Bummer man. . . there's three days of my life I cannot get back.


Andy

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