A little confused on NFS client setup.

imeridian · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 67

I have NFS setup and working with one slight 'glitch' in regards to the client setup.

The slight problem is that I'm unsure as to how I'm supposed to start rpc.statd and rpc.lockd. If I start /etc/init.d/nfs I get them running; however, I don't want to be starting an NFS server process on the client so this seems wrong. Plus when I run that startup script I get " Error starting NFS daemon" which makes sense because I'm not starting one anyway.

I also looked at /etc/init.d/nfsmount, but that seems to only mount NFS shares at boot and doesn't start the required services to get NFS to work -- at least as far as I can tell.

Maybe I'm being a little uptight about not wanting errors, but I think I'm missing something. Shouldn't there be a 'nfsclient' sort of startup script that starts *only* services required for clients?

Lozzer · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 6:56 pm Post subject: netmount

I've got /etc/init.d/netmount added to my default level. It seems to do the right thing (I have portmap, rpciod and lockd running). Scanning the code for a couple of minutes, I couldn't figure out why it hasn't started nfsd as well...

TheCoop · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 8:40 pm Post subject:

afaik you dont need nfsd for clients, you just need nfs client support in the kernel, add the correct line to /etc/fstab, and /etc/init.d/netmount start
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imeridian · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 67

Hmmm, it looks like /etc/init.d/netmount should do what I need combined with the entry in the fstab. I was sort of wanting to get this working on a selective basis, but automounting at boot would work too. Thanks, I'll have to give it a try.

TheCoop · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 10:20 pm Post subject:

you can add 'noauto' to the mounts you dont want on startup
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imeridian · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 67

Thanks

It seems as though I had netmount already in my default, I also added nfsmount (just to be sure because of that, might not be necessary) and put the entry in my fstab, it definitely works the way I would expect now.

Lozzer · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 8:13 am Post subject: Confusion

Sorry about the slight confusion caused by my post. I was only commenting on my script reading abilities when I said I couln't figure out why nfsd didn't get started. I didn't mean to imply I thought it should be started.