Network File System (NFS) is a network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Micro systems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed. NFS, like many other protocols, builds on the Open Network ...
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SFU user mapping failing to map
I have a linux server with a NFS share. It works fine to mount that from another linux box.
It also mounts fine from a windows XP sp3 using SFU 3.5 and advanced mapping.
However, on another win xp ...
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LSF, NFS, and make
When using make in an environment with LSF and NFS, there are issues with synchronization. For example, if a make recipe results in an LSF command being dispatched, and the target of that command is a ...
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Windows Explorer shows Windows 7 Client for NFS mounts as disconnected even though they work
When I use Client for NFS in Windows 7 to mount an NFS share, Windows explorer shows it has a "Disconnected Network Drive" with a red X over its icon. However, if I double-click the icon, I can browse ...
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Moving user accounts and data from NFS server to local server
I'm pretty new to Enterprise Linux administration, and I need to find the best way to move user accounts and their /home directories to a new server. The current setup uses NFS to mount the /home and ...
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VMWare ESX - Clear DNS results
So I have 2 VMs in Vmware, one a DC dishing out DHCP and another server OS. Now it's a lab environment and I used to have a domain, olddomain.co.uk. I had a NAS which had DHCP enabled and was called ...
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GNU/Linux: nfsd will not die
I have a server that will not export NFS. It seems nfsd is hanging. So in an attempt to restart it, I tried to kill nfsd:
# ps aux |grep '\[nfsd\]' | wc -l
8
# killall -9 nfsd
# ps aux |grep ...
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Single NFS-server to redunant NFS-storage
Currently, we have 6 physical host machines installed with Proxmox VE. These hosts are running a number of virtual machines. Mostly Windows Server 2008 R2.
The hosts are Intel Blade servers with a ...
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Mapping UID and GID of local user to the mounted NFS share
I have a server with NFSv4.
I am mounting contents of the home folder of remote user to local host.
Able to read and write contents, but when I am checking ownership of files at the mounted volume ...
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NFS v2 versus v3
I'm having problems with two systems (a Solaris client and Linux server) using NFS v3 to mount home directories. (NFS v4 simply doesn't work at all, for what I'm told by another sysadmin here is a ...
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Use a regular PC as NFS server on a small network vs distributed NFS servers/clients
I'm working at a project with around 7 computers (regular, mid-end PCs) connected to an Ethernet LAN, running Linux and used to run molecular simulation software like PyMOL. There are several users, ...
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Settings up a Global home directory file server
I have an existing database of users for which I would like to be able to create a home global directory and mount it for them on an ec2 instance I manage. The user will be encouraged to store large ...
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rsnapshot over NFS issue
I have a VPS configured with a webhost which I need to backup regularly. I have also purchased a 'backup disk' which is simply an NFS mount on another of their servers.
I have configured rsnapshot to ...
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Xen Debian VM and NFS
I have 2 servers in a pool running a single VM on each server. I just got xencenter running so I am managing through that. I want to have a shared storage (NFS) between the two of them, so that if one ...
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Issue with VMWare vSphere and NFS: re occurring apd state
I am experiencing issues with VMWare vSphere 5.1 and NFS storage on 2 different setups, which result in an "All Path Down" state for the NFS shares. This first happened once or twice a day, but lately ...
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Why files disappear when using autofs
I have a disk mount as /local in the centos 5.3.
Under /local/foldera/folderb/ I have lots of folders like：
drwxrwxrwx root root 4096 DEC 10 10:40 Platformxx
Then I've build another server and on ...
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A same file displays different time stamp and permissions between local file system and NFS
I created a nfs share entry
mzhu@zeus:/share$ cat /etc/exports
/share *(rw,async,insecure)
From the local file system, execute 'ls -al' in /share. The output is
mzhu@zeus:/share$ ls -al
total 20
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NFS export has an incorrect mapping
I am attempting to share 2 USB drives over NFS on a linux machine to an ESXi host as 2 different datastores. When I connect to NFS server using either the ESXi host or another NFS client, I can mount ...
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installing programs to client over Ubuntu server
I am guessing this is possible, however I am not sure what protocol(s) to use and pretty much the way to go about this.
Let's say for instance Open Office -- how could we set up our Ubuntu server to ...
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Mount NFS from PowerShell on Windows 2012 and be visible elsewhere
I'd like to mount an NFS share from Windows 2012 using PowerShell and have this mount be visible in contexts other than the PowerShell session that invoked it. If I use the New-PSDrive command ...
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Mount ISO in Windows 2012 served over NFS [duplicate]
In Windows 2012 Server, is it possible to mount an ISO file that's shared over NFS? With PowerShell, I'm mounting the NFS share using this command:
[10.20.1.1]: PS C:> New-PSDrive Z -PsProvider ...
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nfs server v4 without rpcbind [closed]
could somebody tell me why rpcbind is needed as a service (in RHEL) while nfs4 doesn't need it? Can't understand that because everythink (lock,statd, mount) are incorporate into protocol v4. I've lost ...
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How to force use of tcp instead of udp for rpcbind?
I'm trying to use tcp/111 for rpcbind under Debian Wheezy instead of udp/111. The portmap in Squeeze uses tcp/111 without any special configuration, but Wheezy fails.
Even numerous sites (as well as ...
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NFS mount failing in OpenVZ container but working in Ubuntu
I am running a debian 6.0 open VZ container and can't get my NFS share to mount. The error I am getting is mount.nfs: mount to NFS server '' failed: timed out, giving up
However, using the same exact ...
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NFS mount has stopped working on ESXi
We have had around 20 hosts connected to an NFS share running from an Ubuntu server. The other day they all lost connection. We have rebooted the NFS server to rule out any services going funny.
When ...
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DRBD mount randomly unmounts itself
We have setup setup an NFS HA "cluster" using drbd/heartbeat. Everything works as expected when tested... If the instance nfs1 goes down, nfs2 picks up and everything seems to be fine. On both ...
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Kerberos pre-authentication failed on nfs mount
I have the following nfs export:
/home/users 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sec=krb5p,no_subtree_check,nohide,async,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534)
When trying to mount that on a client I get:
client:/home # ...
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Troubleshooting NFS authentication problems
I am trying to mount a krb5p NFS export. For this I have followed these instructions.
Line in /etc/exports:
/home/users ...
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Windows 2008R2 NFS Client and Usermapping to a Linux NFS Server
I have the following problem at the moment:
Consider we have a Windows 2008R8 Terminal Server with the Microsoft NFS-Tools installed. I want to mount a NFSv3-share from a Linux server. On both ...
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I need rpc.gssd to use the short hostname to kinit
I am trying to do a Kerberized NFS mount from CentOS 6.4. The problem is that the Kerberos backend is Active Directory and the UPN is the short hostname rather than the fqdn. I see that rpc.gssd ...
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Renaming files over a share on FreeNAS
I've just finished spinning up a FreeNAS install for various install ISOs, tools, etc for our team. The box is a small HP microserver with 500 gig of disk total, set up in a RAID-Z ZFS pool.
I've ...
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Mounting NFS shares (Mac OS X) on Ubuntu VirtualBox VM gives Permission Denied
I'm trying to mount a directory shared from a Mac OS X machine on an Ubuntu machine, and it just gives me a permission denied error:
$ sudo mount -v -o vers=3 10.0.2.2:/Users/stefanopalazzo/share ...
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Connecting a usb external drive in NFS to a different server [closed]
I have two unix CentOS servers in the same farm. One of them has an usb HD connected. I would like to access the same usb HD from the second server (I want to be able to write directly to that HD). ...
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Access Forbidden for Apache to a Windows Server 2012 NFS share
I have a Windows 2012 Server with an NFS share that is mounted on a Debian webserver running Apache. Apache is attempting to serve files from the the share but is getting a 403 access forbidden error.
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SVN and NFS architecture
I have linux servers autoscaled and each mounts NFS drive on boot.
The NFS is synced using SVN.
When i change something in my files the changes only propagate to new servers.
I have a lot of traffic ...
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User space NFS server needed
I need to run NFS within an LXC container (meaning I can't use the kernels NFS driver).
Ergo I need a user space NFS server.
UNFS3 - seems like the obvious choice, but it doesn't compile on Ubuntu ...
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Using NFS Share for Apache Uploads
I have some load balanced web servers but need a common place to store uploads files. I've got a file server with NFS and have successfully mounted NFS volumes on each of my web servers. The issue ...
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invalid SID's on files created/copied from NFS
I have been working on getting the AIX servers to talk to a Windows share. We have them talking, but I’m having problems when I mount a windows-hosted NFS share on AIX and then write/copy files to ...
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Cannot start NFS daemon
I'm trying to set up a NFS share but I cant start NFS service:
$ service nfs start
Starting NFS services: [ OK ]
Starting NFS daemon: ...
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Is SAN storage better than NFS? [closed]
I have server with RHEL 6 with Apache 2.2.22 and NFS client (nfs-utils-1.2.3),and access NFS server on private network.
My problem When the number of files increases my web site becomes slow and ...
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/etc/exports & mount option
In my Linux server I have the following options in /etc/exports
/home *(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)
And I mount from a Mac using
mount -t nfs -o ...
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Setting NFS Domain name on Windows 2012 NFS Server
I have a Windows 2012 NFS server setup to use my AD domain as an authentication source. My domain is ad.example.com with a NetBIOS name of AD. My linux machines have idmapd configured to use ...
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Network setup on AWS for NFS
I have a number of servers which all need external IP addresses, as they provide different services and need to be invidually accessible:
server1.mydomain.com > 1.2.3.4
server2.mydomain.com > ...
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Autofs Ubuntu mount OS X NFS
I've configured OS X to export a directory that I want ubuntu server to be able to access. I can mount the NFS export manually using mount host:/path/to/export /mount/point but autofs wont do so.
# ...
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Adding second file server for a web site
I run a website that contains a lot of large files and even after buying the maximum amount of space my host provides on a single server (8x2TB drives) I am now running low on disk space.
I would ...
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NFS server without rpcbind
Is there a way to start nfs server without rpcbind service?
I think of it because nfs v4 could work without rpcbind, so I think that actually if NFS server works only with v4, rpcbind might not be ...
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chmod -R 777 on PXE server - why
So I am following a guide to set up a PXE server, for reference here are the links:
Actual PXE setup
NFS PXE setup
Live-cd PXE setup:
Now throughout these guides he keeps running the chmod -R 777 ...
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Unable to read from/write to an NFS share from Win XP client
We have an NFS share on a Debian Linux host which is mounted on a Win XP host using SFU. We can create folders on a share or delete files from it but it's not possible to perform file write or read ...
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I/O statistics per user for HPC
I have been told that it's hard to collect I/O (file access) load (~ real-time) statistics per user on an HPC system, but I remain skeptical.
At my institution, we use Ganglia for monitoring, and SGE ...
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NFS4 + Kerberos: BAD_ENCRYPTION_TYPE, GSS: Encryption type not permitted, hang on “doing downcall”
I am trying to get NFS4 + Kerberos to work on Debian Squeeze.
I have 3 test machines: nfsserver, nfsclient, nfskerberos
What I've got is:
root@nfsclient:~# mount -v -t nfs4 -o sec=krb5 ...
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iSCSI and NFS file locking and concurrency
I've got a linux host that need to mount a data share located on a NAS. The choice is between NFS v3 (NAS limitation) and iSCSI. The initial idea was to have a NFS mount to the file server that ...
