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From: j_cipale on 26 Oct 2009 12:54
On Oct 26, 9:16 am, Malcolm <malcolm_nospamle...(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:10:11 -0700 (PDT)
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> j_cipale <j_cip...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Adding more fuel to the OS Distro fire. I ran into a series of issues
> > trying to get NFS working between
> > different distros this weekend. suse/fedora have the best method with
> > their gui front-end tools to config client/server. ubuntu has nothing
> > of the sort which requires manually configuring /etc/hosts.* as well
> > as fstab, exports, mtab.
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> > The problem I ran into that we frustrating as hell was getting NFS to
> > work between a SuSE installed host and an ubuntu installed host. I
> > kept receving the error(s):
> > Unable to mount, only root can do that.
> > Permission denied from host.
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> > I am also less than thrilled with this fup that removes the ability to
> > perform a root-login via the GUI login screen. I fixed it once
> > (editing /etfc/gdm/...) and setting root login=true, but after about
> > 3-4 successful login attempts, the damn script returned to root login
> > = false.
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> > This concept of 'making linux safe' is an ef-up. If I wanted a 'safe'
> > OS, I would be running WIndows.
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> > Oh wait...
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> > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have NEVER had these
> > problems getting workstations to interact in the past. It has always
> > been pretty straightforward.
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> > Joe
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> Hi
> Install webmin to configure nfs?
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> Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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Webmin (to my knowledge) is installed. I can pull up the Admin(sic)
control and click on NFS Client/Server dialogs but when the rubber
meets the road, the mount points are just plain borked.
From: j_cipale on 26 Oct 2009 14:06
On Oct 26, 10:44 am, Ram <R...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> j_cipale wrote:
> > Adding more fuel to the OS Distro fire. I ran into a series of issues
> > trying to get NFS working between
> > different distros this weekend. suse/fedora have the best method with
> > their gui front-end tools to config client/server. ubuntu has nothing
> > of the sort which requires manually configuring /etc/hosts.* as well
> > as fstab, exports, mtab.
>
> > The problem I ran into that we frustrating as hell was getting NFS to
> > work between a SuSE installed host and an ubuntu installed host. I
> > kept receving the error(s):
> > Unable to mount, only root can do that.
> > Permission denied from host.
>
> > I am also less than thrilled with this fup that removes the ability to
> > perform a root-login via the GUI login screen. I fixed it once
> > (editing /etfc/gdm/...) and setting root login=true, but after about
> > 3-4 successful login attempts, the damn script returned to root login
> > = false.
>
> > This concept of 'making linux safe' is an ef-up. If I wanted a 'safe'
> > OS, I would be running WIndows.
>
> > Oh wait...
>
> > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have NEVER had these
> > problems getting workstations to interact in the past. It has always
> > been pretty straightforward.
>
> > Joe
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> What's your export file look like ?
> Can you see these from Ubuntu? showmount -e "hostname or IP of server"
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> I've been connecting to OS11 NFS supplied shares for over a yeah to
> Unbuntu 8.04 /10 - 9.04 and now 9.10 on each upgrade or as in the latest
> 9.10 clean install.
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> All I've had to do was install *NFS-Common* then edit fstab and add the
> share mount points.
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> Mount points that I want all users to see, go in /media/sonedirectory,
> these directories needed creating. Stuff that I mount in /mnt/home/ got
> created automatically.
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Yeah.. I do the same thing (i.e with fstab/exports/mtab). I am at work
so will send the info once I reinstall
things tonight (~sigh~).

Thanks for responding.

Joe
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