Very Computer

I've finally convinced 'corporate' that it's a GOOD thing to set up
Linux machines to solve some of the 'little' problems we have. (First
step!)  

What I'm dealing with is I've just setup the latest version of Slackware
(from sunsite.unc.edu) on a 486 and have been able to connect to our
network. I can do an nfs mount of any of the shared drives on the other
servers of the network ONTO the Linux box. These volumes are shared
between many of them.

I can not, however, mount volumes of the Linux box onto any of the other
machines.  I've tried on a Sun Sparc-20 using Solaris 2.5 and a Data
General running DG/UX.  The DG only reports "error" and the sun
reports "RPC: Timed out".  Both of them then go into a continuous retry
routine.

The volumes I'm trying to share are mounted on the Linux box as /work1
and /work2.  I've put entries in the hosts, hosts.allow, and hosts.equiv
files for the servers that I'm wanting to give access to.
In the exports files I've put in the entries:

/work1  foo(rw,no_root_squash) bar(rw,no_root_squash)
/work2  foo(rw,no_root_squash) bar(rw,no_root_squash)

The fstab entries on the Linux system for these two volumes are:

/dev/hdb1    /work1     ext2      defaults     1    1
/dev/hdb2    /work2     ext2      defaults     1    1

The vfstab entries on the sun are:

linuxfs:/work1   -   /linuxfs/work1   nfs    -    yes   rw
linuxfs:/work2   -   /linuxfs/work2   nfs    -    yes   rw

Quote:>From the sun, the commands that I've tried are:

Anybody have any idea of what I've done wrong or where to go from here?
I'm also hoping to simplify the line to put multiple servers with the
same rw/no_root_squash options.  Can I just put something like the
following?

/work1   foo,bar(rw,no_root_squash)
/work2   foo,bar(rw,no_root_squash)

Thanks in advanced.
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: I can not, however, mount volumes of the Linux box onto any of the other
: machines.  I've tried on a Sun Sparc-20 using Solaris 2.5 and a Data
: General running DG/UX.  The DG only reports "error" and the sun
: reports "RPC: Timed out".  Both of them then go into a continuous retry
: routine.

Are you sure you're running rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd?  Some distributions
come with them disabled by default.  Check your rc.net* scripts.

Kind of messy display compaired to how the sun displays but it shows the important
information.  Any and all other comments are STRONGLY encouraged!  :-)
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I'm beginning to think maybe something is wrong with DNS on the sun to cause the RPC timeouts.  Is that a possibility?  The sun is where I have
the resolv.conf entry for nameserver pointing to.
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