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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au!andrew From: andrew@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Andrew Moore) Subject: Re: Using NetBSD as an NFS server? Message-ID: <andrew.750991990@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au> Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system) Reply-To: andrew.moore@rdt.monash.edu.au Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia. References: <29pjup$3qf@hebron.connected.com> <MYCROFT.93Oct17035645@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 00:53:10 GMT Lines: 40 mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: >[PLEASE MAIL QUESTION TO netbsd-help@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu! THANK >YOU.] >In article <29pjup$3qf@hebron.connected.com> >bouwman@hebron.connected.com (Bryan Bouwman) writes: > I have two systems running NetBSD 0.9 set up on an ethernet > network. [...] But I can not get either one of them to be an NFS > server. >You need to recompile the kernel with `options NFSSERVER'. (I have not seen the original posting, hope I am not going over old ground) additionally just simply saying mount machine2:remotedisk local_mount_point will not work, you need to put in an export file and modify /etc/netstart so nfs_server=yes (on NetBSD at least) and either reboot the serving machine or run the nfsserver code from the /etc/rc(.local?) file this gets things like mountd and some nfsd processes going (these can be executed from the command line by root) The main reason (apart from the kernel config entry, forgotten what that does but I compile with it anyway) a machine will not work as a server is because it has no mountd process. This can easily be checked by using the command showmount with the -e option (show exports) eg. showmount -e server_machine this command can be executed on a client or on the server it should return the disk export information, if not, mountd is probably not running. Hope this helps, Andrew.