file-server.xml

[Adam Sommer]

Works for me.  I did a little looking and it the only other place I can find
NFS documented is in the kubuntu networking guide.  The section on NFS
mostly points to documents in the community wiki, so I guess in my opinion
it makes sense to give a little heads up about the client.

Anyway, here's a new diff with the changes.

On 9/13/07, Mathias Gug <mathiaz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:20:02PM -0400, Adam Sommer wrote:
> > Yes, it gets installed on the server.  But from my tests if portmap
> isn't
> > installed and running on the client you can't mount an NFS share.  My
> log
> > starts filling up with entries such as:
> >
> > Sep 12 13:43:20 Grizzlebees kernel: [44217633.150000] portmap: server
> > localhost not responding, timed out
> > Sep 12 13:43:20 Grizzlebees kernel: [44217633.150000] RPC: failed to
> contact
> > portmap (errno -5).
> > Sep 12 13:43:20 Grizzlebees kernel: [44217633.170000] lockd_down: no
> lockd
> > running.
> > Sep 12 14:03:33 Grizzlebees kernel: [44218846.010000] ppdev: user-space
> > parallel port driver
>
> Hum... You're correct when you say that you need the portmapper running
> on the client. However it should be installed and started by default
> when you install nfs-common (which contains the nfs client).
>
> > But since the guide is about the server side maybe it doesn't need to be
> > covered?  I was just thinking that when I was following the example I
> didn't
> > have portmap on my client...either way.
>
> It may worth adding a note about it: "In case nfs mounting doesn't work,
> make sure that the portmapper runs is started."
>
> --
> Mathias
>



-- 
Party On,
Adam
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