I am using OpenSuse 12.1 on two machines networked via a router. I have the problem that my NFS client finds the NFS server, but not the exported folders.
All firewall ports are open on the internal zone on both the server and client machines.
What steps should I take to troubleshoot this problem?
Does anyone have any ideas?
Greetings
hn
hnimmo wrote:
> I am using OpenSuse 12.1 on two machines networked via a router. I have
> the problem that my NFS client finds the NFS server, but not the
> exported folders.
>
> All firewall ports are open on the internal zone on both the server and
> client machines.
>
> What steps should I take to troubleshoot this problem?
Search the forum archives for previous threads and post at leat the
information asked for in them to describe your configuration
I did not find much in the forums yet. By trial and error, I realised that the hosts file (YAST hostnames) did not reflect my router correctly. After I corrected that, my immediate problem was solved: the folders exported by the NFS server are now visible to the NFS client.
I have now hit a second problem that, I think, is also quite common: “Unable to mount the NFS entries from /etc/fstab”
Problem solved. It seems that the NFSv4 option does not work (on my configuration alone?). It was necessary to deselect NSFv4 on both client and server side. All works now as expected.
hnimmo wrote:
> Problem solved. It seems that the NFSv4 option does not work (on my
> configuration alone?). It was necessary to deselect NSFv4 on both client
> and server side. All works now as expected.
NFS v4 does work, but it behaves quite differently to earlier versions
in some important respects. It’s sufficently different that I too have
disabled v4 rather than figure out exactly how to use it, so I’m afraid
I can’t tell you any more detail. But at least you’ve got it working now.