Can't Mount NFS Shares

eYz · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 1:05 am Post subject: Can't Mount NFS Shares

Running Gentoo 1.4, I tried to mount a remote NFS share:
mount -0 rw,bg,intr,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 server1:/export1 /mnt/nfs1

Nothing happens. I can't even Ctrl + C to return to the shell prompt.

I'm sure the server is running properly because I can mount the same share through other Linux systems.

ctford0 · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 1:18 am Post subject:

eYz · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 1:52 am Post subject:

That's a typo in the post only. Actually I run the same script when dual booting Red Hat and Gentoo. It always hangs in Gentoo.

Kulfaangaren! · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 3:38 am Post subject:

Have you set up the serverside permissions for this client correctly ?

In the last post about dual boot, do you mean that the script works under RedHat on the same machine with the same ip but not on Gentoo ?

// Fredrik

useofweapons · n00b Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 26

You need to have portmap running on the client too

bwersch · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2002 Posts: 7

Did you remember to compile NFS support into your kernel?

-Brad

rizzo · Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 9:19 pm Post subject:

Yes I agree with useofweapons. You are having the exact behavior that I get when I try to mount shares while portmap isn't running.

eYz · Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 10:32 pm Post subject:

Thanks guys! Now it's working. But do I really have to run the server daemon while I'm only a NFS client? Or is it the same concept of Windows file sharing that everyone is a server and a client?

captmiddy · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 17

No you don't, you just have to run portmap in order to mount nfs. You only have to run the nfsd if you are going to be exporting local mount points. If you put your mount points into your fstab you can use nfsmount init script to mount your file systems.