Subject: Re: nfs questions
To: Lubos Vrbka <shnek@chemi.muni.cz>
From: David Ferlier <david@netbsd-fr.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/13/2003 16:34:47
Hi,

Add "mountd=YES" in /etc/rc.conf

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:25:39PM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> hi guys,
> 
> i have few probably very stupid questions concerning nfs. i have several 
> computers and i want them to mount shared /etc and /home directories 
> from server over nfs. just to explain - "shared /etc" is not mounted 
> directly to /etc, it's just used to get shared passwd files...
> 
> /etc/exports contains:
> /home   -network 192.168.1/24
> /etc    -ro -maproot=0 -network 192.168.1/24
> 
> i put following into rc.conf (i got this from server that is currently 
> running and nfs works fine):
> nfs_server=YES
>                 mountd_flags=""
>                 nfsd_flags="-6tun 4"
> 
> after startup nfsd complains:
> /etc/rc.d/nfsd: WARNING: $mountd is not set.
> 
> what am i missing/doing wrong?
> 
> do i have to have nfs_client=YES, i.e. enabled on server for any reason? 
>  btw, nfs_server and nfs_client are both "supervised" by nfsd, or are 
> these some special separate daemons? i was looking for text "mountd" in 
>  /etc but i didn't get anything useful...
> 
> thanks for any help, regards,
> 
> lubos
> 
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