ramani@jhunix (Ramani Duraiswami) (09/17/90)
A naive question for the MIPS gurus on the net (forgive me if it is too simple -- I am only a mechanical engineer). I am trying to get NFS working on our MIPS RC3240 and a MIPS 19" color workstation. Thin wire ethernet has been installed, The ethernet works fine between PCs (so I think it is up and running). Looking through the manual, the procedure, I think, one needs to follow to get this beast running is 1) Check if the NFS daemons are running. 2) Assign host names and valid numbers in /etc/hosts 3) Add file systems to be exported to the /etc/fstab file 4) Issue the 'mount' command which creates the mtab file. 5) DO the same on all machines on the network. 6) Reboot the system. Well I did this and the thing doesn't seem to work. Questions: --------- 1) Does the above sequence of actions make sense? 2) What should I do next (other than RTFM)? ANY help will be appreciated. Thank you Ramani ---------------------------------------------------- e-mail :- ramani@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu OR ramani@jhunix on BITNET ramani@polaris.me.jhu.edu (preferred) ramani@venus.me.jhu.edu, ramani@uranus.me.jhu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
houman@mips2.cr.bull.com (Houman Shafiezadeh) (09/18/90)
In article <6441@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, ramani@jhunix (Ramani Duraiswami) writes: > A naive question for the MIPS gurus on the net (forgive me if it is > too simple -- I am only a mechanical engineer). > > I am trying to get NFS working on our MIPS RC3240 and a MIPS 19" color > workstation. Thin wire ethernet has been installed, The ethernet works > fine between PCs (so I think it is up and running). > > Looking through the manual, the procedure, I think, one needs to > follow to get this beast running is > > 1) Check if the NFS daemons are running. > 2) Assign host names and valid numbers in /etc/hosts > 3) Add file systems to be exported to the /etc/fstab file > 4) Issue the 'mount' command which creates the mtab file. > 5) DO the same on all machines on the network. > 6) Reboot the system. > > Well I did this and the thing doesn't seem to work. > > Questions: > --------- > 1) Does the above sequence of actions make sense? > > 2) What should I do next (other than RTFM)? > > ANY help will be appreciated. > > Thank you > Ramani > ---------------------------------------------------- > e-mail :- ramani@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu OR ramani@jhunix on BITNET > ramani@polaris.me.jhu.edu (preferred) > ramani@venus.me.jhu.edu, ramani@uranus.me.jhu.edu > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You add the file systems to be exported to the /etc/exports file and then type exportfs -a this will allow your machine to export the specified file systems. Then go to the "other" machine and create a dir and mount the exported file system from the 3240. If you are not running RISCos 4.50 then you don't need to execute exportfs -a. Take a look at the man page for exportfs anyway. ========================================================================== | || | |Houman Shafiezadeh || houman@mips2.cr.bull.com | |Unix Software Development || | |Bull H.N. Information Systems ||=======================================| |300 Concord RD. || | |Billerica, MA 01821 || | | || | ==========================================================================