On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 12:05:51 Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 09:38 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > 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. > > ---- > then issuing the command (on the Fedora client) > > mount /mnt/borg_Data1 > should either work or fail and give you a message (at worst, log > to /var/log/messages). > > This of course assumes that it isn't already mounted which could be > noted by simply issuing a 'mount' command by itself to see what is > mounted. > > You may have to check /var/log/messages on the CentOS server for clues > too. > Every attempt to mount was simply hanging - so no help at all. However, as you will have seen by now, the problem is solved. I was right that I had missed some steps, and you were right that the mount points at the server end were not correctly set up. The guide on http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/servers/setting-up-nfs4.jspx has got everything working again. Thanks for trying to help. Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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