On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 03:41:12 Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 17:46 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 19 Aug 2011 17:23:34 Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Friday 19 Aug 2011 15:43:23 Tony Schreiner wrote: > > > > NFS v4 problems maybe. Try setting a value for Domain in > > > > > > > > /etc/idmapd.conf > > > > > > > > on both systems (the same for both). > > > > > > That gave me an unbootable system. I've removed it, and am back at > > > square 1. Two things - > > > > > > I should have said that I can access the system from the laptop using > > > ssh + keys. > > > > > > During bootup I saw many messages about nfs4 exports failing, so that's > > > whre the problem is, it seems. Can you please give me a sample line > > > of a known good nfs4 export? > > > > It's hard to be sure when messages flash by so quickly, but I got the > > impression that there was something about fstab. Maybe the format > > required for those lines has changed, too? These are the lines that I > > guess it is looking at: > > > > /Data1 /nfs4exports/Data1 none bind 0 0 > > /Data2 /nfs4exports/Data2 none` bind 0 0 > > /Data3 /nfs4exports/Data3 none bind 0 0 > > /home /nfs4exports/home none bind 0 0 > > > > I think there was something about wrong or missing type. Each of those > > partitions is defined earlier in fstab and does have the correct type > > stated. > > ---- > this is obviously intended to be your NFS server (who knows whether this > is CentOS or Fedora 14). The server is CentOS 6. > You can only bind mount something that already > exists and maybe it's empty. > > does ls -l /Data1 /Data2 /Data3 /home show much of anything? Yes, it lists the contents of each of them. > > On the other system (the NFS client), what does it have in fstab? 192.168.0.40:/Data1 /mnt/borg_Data1 nfs4 rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr 0 0 and equivalents for each of the others. As I said originally, these lines worked with nfs4 on CentOS 5. Anne _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos