On Tue July 17 2007 08:38, randhir phagura wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian; using etch. > > I have installed nfs on server and clients. It is functional manually but > does not mount the shares automatically from /etc/fstab. > > I have modified /etc/init.d/mountall.sh to mount nfs by changing the > 'nonfs' to 'nfs' in the lines shown below" > > mount_all_local() { > mount -a -t nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,cifs,ncp,ncpfs,coda,ocfs2,gfs \ > -O no_netdev > } > > While booting the error ('Failed' shown in red) is as under: > > "Mounting local filesystems." > "mount on nfs Server 192.168.1.7 failed. The Server is is down" > "Failed" > > But the server is very much up. > > Extract from my /etc/fstab is as below: > > 192.168.1.7:/home/rsp /mnt/rsp nfs soft,nfsvers=2 0 > 0 > 192.168.1.7:/home/shp /mnt/shp nfs soft,nfsvers=2 0 > 0 > > > After loging-in as a user I can mount nfs by just running command 'mount > -a' on the terminal. > > I suspect that the script 'mountall.sh' is executed before the network is > up. And there is no link for starting this script in any of the > '/etc/rc?.d' directories. So I cannot makeout at what stage this script is > executed. But it is executed during boot, for sure. I say this because > after reversing the changes, there is no error but the nfs shares are not > mounted still. > > What more is needed here? > > Any suggestions please?
I'm no expert on these things. In my case I have to add noauto to my nfs lines in fstab because I don't want the nfs shares mounted at boot. I never had to edit any file and any nfs shares were always auto mounted at boot without noauto. Mind you it has been quite some time since I have looked at or changed any of the options for anything in fstab, it's possible the behavior has changed in the mean time and I didn't notice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]