[NTLUG:Discuss] NFS Install

[Dale Massey]

This is what I would do to make sure everything is setup and going well.

1. Make sure that you can ping the NFS server from other hosts on the  
   network. This ensures that your network connection is operational.

2. Edit your export file and make it look like:
/mnt/cdrom  *.domain.edu(rw)

replace the domain with yours in the above. But leave the wildcard "*". 

3. Stop the nfs server (in redhat /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs stop). 

4. Start the nfs server (in redhat /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start).

5. run the command exportfs. If you don't have this you can find the
script in the nfs howto and make it yourself from that.

6. Test that the nfs can be mounted from another box.

mount -t nfs servername:/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

7. If that fails it will generally indicate why. If it gives you no info
but it doesn't mount then check /var/log/messages as that will then give
you some indication as to what the problem is.

These are the steps I go through  to do installs on my network all the
time. I use redhat but suse should be pretty close to the same.


Dale Massey