HOWTO: NFS Server/Client

[red71]

What is UID and GID ?
I'll try to find information about it and post feedback here.

[mfdc1969]

Thanks to all for this great How-To and all the resposes but I need a bit more help ...

All was going well until I tried to restart portmapper:

~$ sudo /etc/init.d/portmap restart
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service portmap restart

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the restart(8) utility, e.g. restart portmap
portmap start/running, process 4632

Can someone please explain this to me? What do I need to do to restart the portmapper without having to reboot my machine?

[dannyboy79]

Thanks to all for this great How-To and all the resposes but I need a bit more help ...

All was going well until I tried to restart portmapper:

~$ sudo /etc/init.d/portmap restart
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service portmap restart

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the restart(8) utility, e.g. restart portmap
portmap start/running, process 4632

Can someone please explain this to me? What do I need to do to restart the portmapper without having to reboot my machine?

many times the terminal will tell you what to do or at least hint at what to do. in this case, if you would have fully read the message and took time to TRY to understand it and you would have known what to do. the line that's critical is this one from your terminal output,

"Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8) utility, e.g. service portmap restart"

so from reading the example it gave you, you would run:

sudo service portmap restart

[dannyboy79]

UID = User ID number (the users identification number on that system)

GID = Group ID number (the groups identification number on that system)

most ubuntu installs that I have seen, the first user account created in UID and GID = 1000

here's a great article on how different UID and GID's can cause havoc.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/.../msg00131.html

[mfdc1969]

Thanks.

[red71]

Doing
chmod 777 /volume1/ -R
solved all my problems.

[dannyboy79]

Doing
chmod 777 /volume1/ -R
solved all my problems.

sure, making an entire volume and everything in it recursively read, write, and executable for the owner, the group, AND EVERYONE would solve any issues you were having. Very insecure.

[red71]

What would be a better solution ?

[santhony]

If you google what each of the digits stands for, there's different levels of security.

The first 7 represents rw to the owner
the second 7 reprents rw to the group
the third 7 represents rw to everyone else..

Try something like 755, that will add a bit more security to your files and how they can be controlled.

[fireteller]

I'm trying to make this work on ec2. Every thing seems to be working per the instructions, except for the strange "sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart" instruction.

However when I try to actual run the mount I get this:

> sudo mount 10.243.63.192:/gfx /gfx
mount.nfs: mount system call failed
Exit 32

In the logs I see:

kernel: [ 2603.445904] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
kernel: [ 2603.445907] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
kernel: [ 2663.528428] rpcbind: server 10.243.63.192 not responding, timed out

I don't know what could be blocking the comunication. Any ideas?

Thanks