HOWTO: NFS Server/Client

[marx2k]

Unfortunately with SAMBA *and* with NFS, Im getting a max of 1.5M/sec between two machines.

The Wireless 54Mbps Wireless G Server:

ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:50:D4:FD:E8  
          inet addr:192.168.11.8  Bcast:192.168.11.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::211:50ff:fed4:fde8/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:351318 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:561541 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:31326648 (29.8 MiB)  TX bytes:810895988 (773.3 MiB)


ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"000740B6F60A"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point:                    00:07:40:C4:3B:5E   
          Bit Rate:48 Mb/s   Tx-Power:9 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3  
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=37/94  Signal level=-58 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:2  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

The 100Mbps wired client:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:CA:70:19:A6  
          inet addr:192.168.11.4  Bcast:192.168.11.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::240:caff:fe70:19a6/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5977834 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
          TX packets:5838991 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:1102672825 (1.0 GiB)  TX bytes:4034251400 (3.7 GiB)
          Interrupt:201 Base address:0x2000

The router 'tween the two is a Buffalo Airstation WBR-G54.

What steps should I take to troubleshoot this problem?

[RameshRao]

Bless you, for this simple HOWTO !!!

Files transfer faster than samba too !!!

Regards,
Ramesh

[bodhi.zazen]

Nice How-to

This thread has been added to the UDSF wiki (thank you Crane)

NFS_Easy_Way

[styven]

Hi all,

Getting a bit lost at this point......

"Mounting manually
Example to mount server.mydomain.com:/files to /files. In this example server.mydomain.com is the name of the server containing the nfs share, and files is the name of the share on the nfs server

The mount point /files must first exist on the client machine.
cd /
sudo mkdir files

to mount the share from a terminal type

sudo mount server.mydomain.com:/files /files"

All i want to do is store my music files on my desktop and be able to access them from various laptops around the house over my network.

How do i know what "mydomain" is called and is it .com? Do i have one?
the files i want to access would be home/styvens/music
I will want this share to be available from boot up on any other computer in the house

Sorry if i appear a bit thick here......

Steve

[george_apan]

Hi all,

Getting a bit lost at this point......

"Mounting manually
Example to mount server.mydomain.com:/files to /files. In this example server.mydomain.com is the name of the server containing the nfs share, and files is the name of the share on the nfs server

The mount point /files must first exist on the client machine.
cd /
sudo mkdir files

to mount the share from a terminal type

sudo mount server.mydomain.com:/files /files"

All i want to do is store my music files on my desktop and be able to access them from various laptops around the house over my network.

How do i know what "mydomain" is called and is it .com? Do i have one?
the files i want to access would be home/styvens/music
I will want this share to be available from boot up on any other computer in the house

Sorry if i appear a bit thick here......

Steve

The server.mydomain.com can just be the ip address of your desktop in your LAN, so you could just use:

sudo mount 192.168.1.10:/remotefolder /mountpoint

for example

Or if you add an entry to your /etc/hosts with that ip and assign a name to it:

192.168.1.10 desktop

so you could mount it with

sudo mount desktop:/remotefolder /mountpoint

Of course you should use a static ip and not dhcp for all this to work.

[styven]

Thanks for that,

So i need to find the ip of my desktop and set it to static, which is at the moment set up as dhcp.

Just so i can be pointed in the right direction, my network setup is as follows.

cable setop box (modem) to 4 way router, internet split from router to various laptops etc.

Do i need to do anything different, I was really looking to set up a home server, is this in effect what will happen if i want to access files form the desktop?

Steve

[george_apan]

Thanks for that,

So i need to find the ip of my desktop and set it to static, which is at the moment set up as dhcp.

Just so i can be pointed in the right direction, my network setup is as follows.

cable setop box (modem) to 4 way router, internet split from router to various laptops etc.

Do i need to do anything different, I was really looking to set up a home server, is this in effect what will happen if i want to access files form the desktop?

Steve

Just assign static ips to all the pcs you want to have access to and you'll be fine.

[styven]

Thanks for input so far, still struggling.

I have tried this out on 2 laptops at the moment, 1 being server, 1 being client.
On the client i can't see the shared folder, and also i can't see a folder i have set up to be shared from the client on the 1st laptop.

Please see screenshot of the 1st laptop(server) settings, what am i not doing right?

Steve

[george_apan]

Thanks for input so far, still struggling.

I have tried this out on 2 laptops at the moment, 1 being server, 1 being client.
On the client i can't see the shared folder, and also i can't see a folder i have set up to be shared from the client on the 1st laptop.

Please see screenshot of the 1st laptop(server) settings, what am i not doing right?

Steve

What is your 2nd laptop's (client) ip? Are you restarting nfs with:

sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart
sudo exportfs -a

after you make the changes?

Can you ping the server from the client and the other way around?

[styven]

the clients ip is 192.168.1.3
how do i ping?

thanks for your help so far
steve