NFS howto?

[panickedthumb]

I tried this one: http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/
But whenever I try to mount the drives it says connection refused. I know I'm using the right IP addresses. In our apartment there are 3 ubuntu machines, mine is the only one on Hoary, the others are Warty 386 and Warty ppc. No windows machines or apple machines, so no need for samba/appletalk. Is there any straightforward howto on how to get NFS to work? Thanks :)

[az]

There is a faq about this:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/nfs-server

[panickedthumb]

There is a faq about this:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/nfs-server
EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks a lot :)

[trash]

Hey panickedthumb, what was it that you did to get it working??

I've done all of the variations, crashed a few times, tried in /mnt and home directory with varying degrees of success but nothing stable or automatic(mount at boot)... what do your working files look like?

thanks

[panickedthumb]

Well, I basically did exactly what the link provided said.
My fstab entry looks like:
192.168.1.102:/share /univac nfs rw 0 0
192.168.1.102 is the ip of the server
/univac is the shared folder.

[trash]

hmmmm...

my fstab
/192.168.0.20:/home/kenji/g3stuff /home/kenji/g4space nfs rw 0 0

I am now getting permission denied...

hosts:
portmap: 192.168.0.1

exports:
/home/kenji/g3stuff 192.168.0.1(rw,async)

kinda looks like it should work but it don't:(

[trash]

anybody got any ideas?
mount: 192.168.0.20:home/kenji/g3stuff failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

I can ping both machines(server and client)
booting the client machine, there is a message in boot saying can't get address for 192.168.0.20 (server), but ....

$ rpcinfo -p 192.168.0.20 (on both machines gives me...)
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
100003 3 udp 2049 nfs
100003 4 udp 2049 nfs
100003 2 tcp 2049 nfs
100003 3 tcp 2049 nfs
100003 4 tcp 2049 nfs
100021 1 udp 32771 nlockmgr
100021 3 udp 32771 nlockmgr
100021 4 udp 32771 nlockmgr
100021 1 tcp 35899 nlockmgr
100021 3 tcp 35899 nlockmgr
100021 4 tcp 35899 nlockmgr
100005 1 udp 825 mountd
100005 1 tcp 828 mountd
100005 2 udp 825 mountd
100005 2 tcp 828 mountd
100005 3 udp 825 mountd
100005 3 tcp 828 mountd

I have thought firewall but i use firestarter on my client machine and as far as I understand it leaves the internal network alone aside for masq... just incase though I have the client as a trusted IP, but still no luck.

[trash]

finally with a little bit of tweaking i am able to mount the share but now as soon as i try to open a file, it freezes up to the point where i no longer can even access my home directory on the client machine. can anybody tell me what i'm missing here, it all looks so simple in all the howto's, but i still see a lot of people with troubles regarding nfs.. thanks for any help:)

[trash]

ok finally figured out the silly problem, after trying many howto's and fixes on this forum, it turned out to be a 'fix' that didn't work that i forgot to undo ](*,)

the 'fix' that didn't, was in the fstab which read:
/192.168.0.20:......
and i also tried another fix that didn't, which read:
//192.168.0.20:......

what does work perfectly(for me) is:
192.168.0.20:/home/g3 /mnt/g4space nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0

*EDIT*

AUGH! after copying a couple of files to the mounted file everything froze up again!!
on shutdown i get NFS and RCP errors 101...
on boot i get 'warning NFS mount version older than kernel'... so forget the 'fix' :(