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Exporting using NFS Manager

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pcogan

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Hi,
I've just added a new 10TB raid to a new XServe. I can see the raid, read and write to it etc. Now I want to allow other machines (other XServes and linux boxes) to access the raid, so I want to NFS export using NFS Manager. When I try to activate the NFS server, I get a message saying : RPC (Remote Procedure Call) Port Mapper Not Active. So, I guess I need to activate this RPC thing, which I after a little digging, I believe is called sunrpc. Anybody any ideas how to activate sunrpc - or check its status etc?

thanks for readinga and help.
 
pcogan said:
Hi,
I've just added a new 10TB raid to a new XServe. I can see the raid, read and write to it etc. Now I want to allow other machines (other XServes and linux boxes) to access the raid, so I want to NFS export using NFS Manager. When I try to activate the NFS server, I get a message saying : RPC (Remote Procedure Call) Port Mapper Not Active. So, I guess I need to activate this RPC thing, which I after a little digging, I believe is called sunrpc. Anybody any ideas how to activate sunrpc - or check its status etc?

thanks for readinga and help.
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You need to make sure portmap is running.

BTW - we're getting an XServe at work soon. You're not seriously telling me the thing doesn't have built in software to configure NFS exports are you? Christ.
 
dr_lha said:
You need to make sure portmap is running.

BTW - we're getting an XServe at work soon. You're not seriously telling me the thing doesn't have built in software to configure NFS exports are you? Christ.
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actually it does! I'm just very slowly figuring things out 🙂
 
If you don't feel like digging through the PDF link above, NFS Manager is only required when you want to export NFS shares from a Mac OS X Client machine, not Mac OS X Server.

Mac OS X Server has facilities built into the Workgroup Manager and the Server Admin applications to make setting up NFS Exports and network Auto-Mounts simple.
 
ElectricSheep said:
If you don't feel like digging through the PDF link above, NFS Manager is only required when you want to export NFS shares from a Mac OS X Client machine, not Mac OS X Server.

Mac OS X Server has facilities built into the Workgroup Manager and the Server Admin applications to make setting up NFS Exports and network Auto-Mounts simple.
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Good to know, I had a mild panic attack there thinking I was going to have to tell my network admin that not everything had a nice UI on the XServe.
 
dr_lha said:
Good to know, I had a mild panic attack there thinking I was going to have to tell my network admin that not everything had a nice UI on the XServe.
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oops sorry for giving you a fright - maybe you won't be so quick to take the word of a newbie next time 😉

seriously though, thanks for the links - I might be coming back with more questions so I'd be most appreciative if you'd keep an eye on the threads

cheers
 
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