bourkej@ul.ie (02/14/91)
Has anyone any words of wisdom on setting up AUX 2.0 as a NFS client ? Is is straight forward or are there some hidden traps. We have a few UNIXs running ok with NFS but AUX doesn't seem to be as easy as the others. John Bourke O-O Systems Support, <bourkej@ul.ie> | Information Technology Department, Phone: +353 61 333644 x2008 # _ # University Of Limerick, Ireland. FAX: +353 61 330316 ###
mikel@berlioz.nsc.com (Michael G. Lohmeyer) (02/17/91)
In article <16539.27b970c8@ul.ie> bourkej@ul.ie writes: >Has anyone any words of wisdom on setting up AUX 2.0 as a NFS client ? Is >is straight forward or are there some hidden traps. We have a few UNIXs >running ok with NFS but AUX doesn't seem to be as easy as the others. > >John Bourke O-O The procedure is fairly simple to set up NFS on A/UX 2.0. First, you must use newconfig to add the NFS stuff to the kernal: newconfig nfs (presuming that you have set up the TCP/IP stuff already). Then you also need to edit a couple files. They are the /etc/exports file and the /etc/fstab (on the machine that wishes to mount the A/UX machine's disk). /etc/exports might look like this: /usr/local /users / frodo which would only allow any machine on the network to mount /usr/local and /users, but only frodo can mount /. The /etc/fstab file on the other machines might look like this (add lines like this to /etc/fstab): bilbo:/usr/local /nfs/usr/local nfs rw,soft,bg,timeo=14 0 0 bilbo:/users /nfs/users nfs rw,soft,bg,timeo=14 0 0 assuming that the machine that you want to become an nfs server is called bilbo. This would mount /usr/local and /users on bilbo as /nfs/usr/local and /nfs/users on the machine that has this fstab file. Reboot all the machines and things will start up. This is just a quick example. To get the full story, use the man command on the A/UX machine to read about fstab, exports and mount. If there are any problems getting NFS to work, it is most likely related to having not set up exports correctly, or having forgotten to link nfs into the kernal with newconfig. By the way. I had trouble getting NFS to work when I set up the exports file to allow only specific machines to nfs mount certain points like: / frodo The problem when away when I removed the machine name (frodo in this case) form the exports file and allowed everyone to mount the volume. This may be another source of problems with NFS. I haven't had time to go back and figure out why this did not work. Mike ------------- Mike Lohmeyer mikel@berlioz.nsc.com National Semiconductor Corporation (408) 721-8075
liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) (02/19/91)
In <16539.27b970c8@ul.ie> bourkej@ul.ie writes: >Has anyone any words of wisdom on setting up AUX 2.0 as a NFS client ? Is >is straight forward or are there some hidden traps. We have a few UNIXs >running ok with NFS but AUX doesn't seem to be as easy as the others. Try typing /etc/newconfig nfs which should do the trick, including asking you the necessary questions. This should have been somewhere in the documentation you received with your system: if you didn't receive any documentation at all then complain bitterly! -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk Queen Mary & Westfield College UUCP: liam@qmw-cs.UUCP Mile End Road AppleLink: UK0087 LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Tel: 071-975 5250 (Fax: 081-980 6533)