Questions tagged [nfs]
Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems 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.
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How to permanently mount an NFS share under Windows 7?
If I have an OpenWrt router with a 1,5TB HDD on it that's exported via NFS3, then how can I permanently mount it on an NFS share under Windows 7? (they're on the same subnet.)
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NFS mount readable but not writable
I'm trying to mount a remote directory owned by www-data to a local directory owned by sam.
From sam's home directory, I've created ~/directory, and when I "mount directory", I see the contents of ...
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what do I need to do on a unix machine to allow some PC computer to mount (NFS)
I have a unix computer and a PC computer.
I want to mount a drive in the PC onto a unix directory.
What do I need to do in the unix side to allow this?
Thank you!
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How to (cleanly) dismount sshfs when mounted on a NFS mount point?
My coworker has a desktop computer with /home shared on our file server. I have developed a Perl script for sshfs-mounting a certain directory on another SSH host which works fine on my laptop.
On ...
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Fastest protocol for mounting a NAS for Linux and Mac [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Samba vs. NFS: Performance
AFP, SMB, NFS which is the best data transfer protocol ?
I am building a file server with RAID 10.
I need a way to access the files from ...
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NFS won't allow access to mounted media
I'll explain it here, but I have this problem, for which the solution that user received doesn't fix my problem satisfactorily (sshfs)
The problem is that I would like to share my /media folder over ...
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NFS4 problems on Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu Server 11.04
I tried installing nfs-common on a Ubuntu 10.04 and on a Ubuntu Server 11.04 machines like this:
sudo apt-get install nfs-common
The /etc/init.d/nfs-common script does not get created. Also, the rpc....
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ImageMagick command sometimes fails
I have an ImageMagick command that is something like this:
convert "/path/to/photo" -set comment "(c) my company" -resize WxH miff:- | composite -dissolve 30 -geometry +40+138 -quality 80 "/path/to/...
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How can I access SMB network shares on-demand from a Mac?
I regularly use samba network file shares on a corporate network from my Mac running Leopard. How can I automount these shares on-demand when I access a representative path via a shell or the Finder?
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Any way to symlink an NFS folder on a NTFS drive on Windows 7?
I am using Windows 7 and have successfully mounted an nfs drive using the Windows NFS Client. I would now link to symlink (or create a junction in different terminology) a folder to a location on a ...
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Can anybody give me an idea of when to use NFS and when to use iscsi as the file system?
What are the differences of these two types?
After searching on the Internet, I know NFS transfers files to the client, while iscsi transfers block to the client. With such information, I am still ...
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Multiple Machines: Share Data Using NFS / HTTP / FTP?
I have a network of 20 machines, all running Ubuntu 10.04.
Each machine has about 200[GB] of data that I'd like to share with all other 19 machines for READ ONLY PURPOSES. The reading should be done ...
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CIFS (Windows Share) or NFS for Windows directory share
I have a (Virtualized) Linux server which I'd like to backup regularly. The rest of our environment is Microsoft and our backup solution (ArchiveIQ) runs only on Windows - there are no Linux clients.
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how to mount nfs on OSX so I can create new files?
I mounted restoredb directory to my OS X 10.6.2 via Disk Utility with Advanced Mount Parameters = resvport.
I am able to edit files that are in the mounted directory but I am not able to create new ...
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How to I set up nfs using the Drobo Unfsd app?
How do I set up my nfs on my Drobo FS so that I can connect to it from my Mac using the NFS protocol?
I have downloaded and installed Unfsd program from the DroboApps page. My exports file looks like ...
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How to mount NFS export on Mac OS X?
I have FreeBSD (test.local) box configured as NFS server. And I'm trying to mount its NFS sharing form my mac (hhmm.local)
/nfs hhmm.local
/nfs has 777 permission.
And I checked from mac that ...
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How to access NFS share from Windows 7 pro?
Everywhere I see Windows and NFS, there is a mention of some kind of subsystem of unix apps or something like this, but apparently it's not in Windows 7 pro.
So the question is: what can I do to get ...
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Won't read Unicode characters over NFS mount?
I'm getting this strange issue when trying to play MP3s containing Unicode characters (accents) over an NFS on Mac OSX, it's all good over AFP, but I'm setup with NFS because it's a linux server on ...
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Why are network drives (e.g. /cygdrive/w mounted to //foo/whatever) NOT showing up in an ssh connection?
We need a user's Linux home directory (which is exported via NFS and Samba) to be that same user's home directory in a Cygwin bash shell invoked via ssh.
Shell windows at the Windows console include ...
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How to have many linux groups and many users in groups in linux + active directory network
We just discovered that each linux group can hold only max users up to 1024 characters (/etc/groups line length).
My coworker set up ActiveDirectory and wants to map the groups and users (ca.2500) to ...
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Using NFS home directories when offline
I have a server which has a NFS4 server running and exports the home directories for all my users. This setup work great when the user have direct access via LAN or WLAN to the server. But if a laptop ...
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NFS4 / ZFS: revert ACL to clean/inherited state
My problem is identical to this Windows question, but pertains NFS4 (Linux) and the underlying ZFS (OpenIndiana) we are using. We have this ZFS shared via NFS4 and CIFS for Linux and Windows users ...
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Sync file system changes in a folder to server on LAN (via SSH or NFS) automatically
I'm looking for a solution that'll automatically sync file system changes in "/folder1" to "/folder2". Any change should be synced (deleted files, new folders etc.) without any confirmation. ...
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Disabling file permissions on NFS share
I am trying to set up a nfs share for use by non-technical users, and really don't want file permissions messing things up. Everyone should be able to read/write anything on this share without even ...
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Multiple GNOME sessions
I'm working in a corporate network environment and am having trouble with multiple GNOME sessions. My desktop runs Ubuntu 10.10 and I would like to start another GNOME session on a remote machine ...
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Export NFS path containing "-" (dash)
I'm in a bit of a pinch with NFS exports file.
Specifically, I can't find a way to export a directory containing "-" in the path name.
Manual (exports(5)) states:
Also, each line may have one or ...
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Booting with nfs just prints some weird character
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I have an embedded system which I am unable to boot via NFS using an Embedded Linux Kernel Image and rootfs both placed on my laptop (which serves as the NFS server as well as a TFTP server)...
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How to rename a directory under Mac (10.6.4) via the superuser?
This is my directory list on my NFS:
macbook-pro-andrey-k:Download Andrey$
ls
1289816143_PL_t1181913
1289816171_PL_t1183807
1290117075_BFD_DVD02(Drums)
I can't delete "1290117075_BFD_DVD02(...
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how to deal with shared home directory on linux?
situation is as follows:
home directory is on nfs share A: /home/me
workstations a, b, c, ... share that home directory: /home/me is a link to A:/home/me
all workstations are used at the same time
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Zero KB available on NFS Mac OS X
I can't write to my NFS (Xtreamer media player).
Writing works fine via Terminal, but in Finder everything is read only and Finder says "Zero KB available." and gives me the error message "The item ...
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How to recursively mount file shares?
I have a Linux machine that shares some files through NFS. The shared directory is:
/foo
I then mounted a shared directory (from a Windows machine) to:
/foo/bar
/foo/bar is mounted successfully ...
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Changing file and folder ownership from root?
I created a folder structure as root and now need to transfer ownership to an ordinary user.
This question is linked to this one - Providing permission to specific user to access NFS share
I have a ...
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Providing permission to specific user to access NFS share
I have two machines between which I need to share a folder.
On server1, I have the user 'appuser' that needs to access (read/write/delete) on this share.
On server2, 'root' accesses this share and ...
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NFS share from OS X Snow Leopard to Ubuntu Linux
I'm trying to share a some files on a Mac running Snow Leopard with a Ubuntu Linux.
The mount request gets a "permission denied", and a client system log contains
"host xx requires a stronger ...
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Autofs hang processas
I use CentOS 5.5 with Xen.
I created RedHat 5.3 DomU and exported some directories through nfs.
In clien side (Dom0) I configured autofs for automatically mounting server's directories.
Server side (...
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Connecting one Linux host's filesystem to the other in a way that tolerates network interruptions
I have two Linux hosts (both running Ubuntu 10.04) and I want one of them to have access to part of the filesystem of the other. I.e. I want remote1 to be able to access the files of remote2:/home/...
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Unable to mount Windows Server 2008 share from Linux (fedora13)
I am trying to mount a shared drive on a Windows Server 2008 machine using a Linux machine (Fedora 13).
I try mounting by
# mount //HOSTNAME/SHARENAME /mnt/FOLDER
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Advice for sharing a guest vm's files with the host
I've got a RAIDZ array on a FreeBSD guest. My host is Ubuntu 10.04 running KVM. I'd like to mount the array on the host OS somehow and access the files as efficiently as possible.
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How to set up an NFS server on Ubuntu
I'm trying to set up an NFS server on my Ubuntu server to be accessed from my Mac OS X 10.6.4 desktop. I started on the Ubuntu side by following this guide (the quick start). When I finally try to ...
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cannot write on mounted nfs
I cannot write to the mounted directory on wwwdev as root. I can of course access it from my mac.
I have mounted the directory
from my Mac Darwin Radeks-iMac.local
10.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.2....
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Setting up NIS/NFS on Mac OS 10.6
We have an Ubuntu NIS/NFS server at work and we recently got a few new iMacs. Is there a way to set them up so they can use the linux user accounts and mount the shared nfs files? Are there any guides ...
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Can't chgrp in NFS4 mounts
I'm using Linux in a large multi-user network. Let A be some group which I'm am member of, but which is not my primary group. According to chmod(2) I should be able to chgrp a file to group A. Trying ...
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Is it safe to export a NFS-mounted directory via NFS?
Motivation: To access files on a NFS server from multiple computers without making more than one connection to the NFS server.
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Backup to Synology NAS using rsync or NFS and hardlinks
I want to backup data from a Windows (Vista) computer to a Synology NAS (210j). The NAS supports FTP, SMB, NFS and also allows a rsync daemon to be set up.
I want to backup different folders to the ...
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Setting up NFS server on Gentoo
I'm trying to set up an NFS server on a Gentoo VM. I've installed nfs-utils-1.2.2 and added the following line to the /etc/exports file:
/root/svn 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)
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How to crypt and share a directory on OS-X via NFS?
We have an osx desktop Environment with nfs shares and using linux/vm´s as nfs-clients
We want to encrpyt the nfs-data/directories on our os-x machines.
Is that possible? Apple´s File-Fault is using ...
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suddenly cannot mount nfs share from Windows 7
I recently reinstalled my file server (moved from fedora to Ubuntu server).
Now I cannot mount my nfs share from Windows 7, mounting from Mac OSX works fine.
In Windows I either keep getting "the ...
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Best filesystem choices for NFS storing VMware disk images
Currently we use an iSCSI SAN as storage for several VMware ESXi servers. I am investigating the use of an NFS target on a Linux server for additional virtual machines. I am also open to the idea of ...
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How to restart (or stop or heck even start) the nfs client service on ubuntu 9.10?
The /etc/init.d/nfs-common file has been removed.
There is no NFS service utility.
Any help greatly appreciated.
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Mount NFS as remote user
I have debian as an NFS client.
I would like to mount a remote NFS with a specific user permissions (to specify the remote user account)
How can I do that?
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