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Neo-Rio
06-09-2003, 05:17 AM
Being a newbie to NFS on RH9, I edited the exports file and entered in the directory and host DNS name of the server (ftp.test.com), as well as (rw,sync) for the options. So then I started the name server and nfs up.

The thing should be working except that when I use the Windows client to try and access it (ftp://ftp.test.com) nothing happens... but there is a file in the directory I allocated (/misc/export)

What's going on? The name server is working fine.......
jpmythic
06-09-2003, 06:15 AM
I cant tell enough to offer help...

What Setup do you have for DNS?
Is this a Firewalled system?
this [ftp://ftp.test.com] you are trying to setup on NFS, is this for an FTP Server or an NFS share?
How are the Two Machines connected?
What DNS server is the Windows Box talking too?

Etc...

Windows cannot easily access NFS shares... Unless you setup Samba to make it available to Windows.
Hayl
06-09-2003, 07:17 AM
Originally posted by Neo-Rio
Being a newbie to NFS on RH9, I edited the exports file and entered in the directory and host DNS name of the server (ftp.test.com), as well as (rw,sync) for the options. So then I started the name server and nfs up.

The thing should be working except that when I use the Windows client to try and access it (ftp://ftp.test.com) nothing happens... but there is a file in the directory I allocated (/misc/export)

What's going on? The name server is working fine.......

since when is the ftp protocol for accessing NFS Shares?
robert0380
06-09-2003, 07:18 AM
soudns like u are mixing up FTP and NFS, those are 2 different services, FTP is for file transfer stuff, NFS is for mounting Linux shares over a network. You need to seperae the 2.
Hayl
06-09-2003, 07:29 AM
Originally posted by robert0380
soudns like u are mixing up FTP and NFS, those are 2 different services, FTP is for file transfer stuff, NFS is for mounting Linux shares over a network. You need to seperae the 2.

thanks for unconfusing me. i just got out of bed and crawled over to the computer and saw that and it hurt my brain :)

Neo-Rio : use samba for sharing files to windows machines. there is a tutorial on it on the "Library" section of this website.
robert0380
06-09-2003, 07:52 AM
no problem man