From: Mark Hobley on
I have a problem trying to get the NFS server operational on one of my
Debian based computers.

My /etc/exports directory contains the following entries:

/volumes/vol3a 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw)
/volumes/vol4a 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw)

I start the NFS kernel server as follows:

/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start

The lsmod command reveals:

Module Size Used by
nfs 196300 0
nfsd 196784 5
exportfs 5376 1 nfsd
lockd 53256 2 nfs,nfsd
nfs_acl 3584 2 nfs,nfsd
sunrpc 133820 8 nfs,nfsd,lockd,nfs_acl

ps -ef reveals:

statd 2385 1 0 Jun22 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/rpc.statd
root 2393 1 0 Jun22 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.idmapd
daemon 8163 1 0 Jun23 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/portmap

rpcinfo -p

program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
100024 1 udp 2050 status
100024 1 tcp 4696 status

I have no NFS related entries showing here.

cat /proc/fs/nfs/exports
# Version 1.1
# Path Client(Flags) # IPs

My exported paths are not showing in /proc/fs/nfs/exports

Any ideas what could be wrong? The machine is operational in all other
respects, and is networking fine, apart from NFS is not working.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

Mark.

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Mark Hobley,
393 Quinton Road West,
Quinton, BIRMINGHAM.
B32 1QE.