Network file system protocol 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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Read-only NFS share not updating
I have a large storage device with about 6 different shares all mounted to a server running Ubuntu 12.04. The storage device takes regular checkpoints each day. I have the shares mounted as read-only ...
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Rsync behavior in a cron script
I have an nfs device that creates checkpoint (backups) everyday. I want to use Rsync to copy these checkpoints to another device (Drobo connected via iSCSI). So I've run the script on a single nfs ...
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How to setup NFS on 13.04 and 12.10
I used my 12.10 as my NFS server.
And the 13.04 as the client.
After installing NFS to both of my laptops
I added this in /etc/exports
/export ...
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How can I share NTFS drive between Ubuntu PC
I am just installing Ubuntu 12.04 in my office in two PC. Every PC have some NTFS formated drive. So I want to share them between these two PCs. Please help me regent if possible.
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odd nautilus behavior in raring on NFS shares
My wife upgraded to Raring and is having strange behavior: When she browses her pictures and media (nfs mounted through autofs) with nautilus and she tries to scroll through the folder or just moving ...
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Can't share zfs filesystem over nfs
Ubuntu Server 13.04. Client OpenElec 3.02
trying to share thru built-in into zfs sharenfs
server (192.168.1.56)
administrator@ubuntu:~$ sudo zfs get all | grep share
[sudo] password for ...
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Placing $HOME directory on nfs server
I have a number of client machines, all running Ubuntu, and recently upgraded to 13.04. I also have a Slackware-based server which includes an nfs service.
What I am aiming to do is to have access ...
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how to unmount NFS when server is gone?
I am mounting a NFS-folder from a server to my laptop.
Unforutnately, the server goes off sometimes... The problem is, that I cannot unmount the "dead" NFS-folder. On the command-line, I get "device ...
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dpkg stale NFS problem, but no NFS ever used
I've been having issues with updating my computer running 13.04. The problems are also encountered while trying to do any package operation as far as I can tell. The error message is "Stale NFS ...
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How to stop nautilus from copying/deleting instead of moving on nfs mounted dir?
I have an NFS mounted folder (mounted via autofs). Whenever I move files around inside the folder using mv, they are moved instantly (as expected) no matter how large they are. However, when using ...
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SSH vs SMB vs NFS for GUI file transfer
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 on many computers at my school (I am a teacher and the head tech dude). I use Clonezilla to massively clone desktops and laptops. I want to easily share the disk images ...
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Incorrect NFS mount entries in Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS?
I’ve got the following error message when I try to unmount a NFS share on my Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS installation:
$ sudo umount /home/ubuntu/nfstest/client
/home/ubuntu/nfstest/client was not found in ...
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Trying to monitor an NFS mount with Conky results in an “statfs '/nfs/pi': No such file or directory” error
I've been google'ing this for a while and can't find any help.
I have a nfs-server at home that is mounted to our laptops with autofs via wifi. I monitor my laptop with conky 1.8.1 and I want to conky ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.04: can't write to nfs share
I have installed a small home server running 12.04, now trying to configure an NFS share with Webmin version 1.620. I have gradually lowered the security on the share to basically nil, yet any write ...
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Issue Mounting NAS
I am trying to mount a NAS on one of my servers:
htadmin@testing:~$ showmount -e 10.0.0.210
Export list for 10.0.0.210:
/humanresources
/Web
/Usb
...
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Shutdown network connection to NFS directory make freeze Ubuntu Lucid 10.04?
I suspect that NFS make freeze my workstation when the network access to the NFS server is cut.
What I mean by freeze: impossible to launch any application, impossible to execute a command in a ...
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NFS does not see underlying NTFS
I have an internet sharing server which is connected with a hdd with music I'd like to listen via wifi.
I have tried creating a samba or ftp share, but they are so slow (or I just do not know how to ...
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Not starting NFS kernel daemon: no support in current kernel
I tried to follow these instructions for setting up NFS server on 12.04:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpNFSHowTo
/etc/default/portmap doesn't exist so I skipped that part.
After ...
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Autofs+NFS unmount
I have configured NFS client to mount user's home using autofs automounter. /home of server is shared using nfsv3. I am using NIS (ypserve) for authentication. NIS and NFS both are configured on the ...
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Trash of local filesystem problems with NFS home
Using Ubuntu 12.04.
At the university we have an NIS, and home directories are centralized on an NFS share. When I delete something from my home directory, all is well. However, because the share is ...
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Why does Nautilus take so long to display content of folder on NFS share?
I have a file server running which servers NFS and SAMBA. Although I get much higher transfer rates with NFS, and also listing the content of a folder with ls in the terminal is fast, it takes ages to ...
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My nfs share mounts, but the sub folders are empty
Quick description:
My problem is that my nfs share mounts, it shows the first set of sub folders.
But the subfolders / files of thoose does not show.
Description:
I have 3 computers. First it's ...
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How do I get an Ubuntu 12.10 nfs4 client to talk with a Fedora Core nsf4 server?
fstab:
vs00001:/home /home nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0
rpcinfo -p:
program vers proto port service
100000 4 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 3 tcp 111 portmapper
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Seem /etc/exports can only export one directoy
on the nfsserver (called ubuntu) the /etc/exports contains
/media/ext 192.160.1.0/24(rw)
/home/file 192.160.1.0/24(rw)
On the client machine sudo mount -t nfs ubuntu:/home/file /mnt was executed, ...
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How do I set up (rel)atime with nfs correctly?
I have the /home directory mounted over nfs (v3) with local cache. For some programs to work (mutt for instance), atime support has to be enabled or set to relatime in the home folder.
In order to ...
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How to disable a specific mount, when using automount over LDAP
I am using Ubuntu 11.04, on which NFS paths are automounted using AutoFS/LDAP. For example, /path1 and /path2 are auto mounted, but I want to disable automount for /path1, because I want to use a ...
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Cannot get correct privileges using Samba on NFS mounted partition
I have read/scanned for Samba/NFS problems and answers on the forum, which were quite interesting, many thanks for those :) Setting up NFS can be quite a pain in the ... but getting a warning before ...
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Empathy Chat: People Nearby text chat OK but file transfer fails. Why? How to troubleshoot?
Problem:
Chat works (sending text and smileys) with the "People Nearby" feature but sending files silently fails. Going to Contact > Send File presents the sender with a file chooser and no error is ...
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Diskless with Ubuntu 12.04
I'm trying to setup a new diskless solution with ubuntu 12.04 without any success. I followed this howto:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto
But the initramfs seems not to be ...
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Mount NAS from second network
I do have a general question. So far I'm a lucky user of Ubuntu and I like the possibilities. Right now I have on issue concerning connecting my NAS from a second network outside my home network. I ...
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What's the benefit of AutoFS versus a static NFS mount?
I understand that AutoFS mounts shared on-demand and then unmounts them after a certain amount of idle time, but are there other advantages to AutoFS?
For example, if my NFS server crashes (or ...
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PXE boot ubuntu 12.04 Customization
Just configured my Ubuntu 12.04 server to play host to a diskless PXE/NFS system. Currently I'm deploying the Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop Live CD to all my clients (derived from the install CD). My question ...
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How to remove caching of NFS shares on local disk
My desktop don't have an internal hard drive. I installed Ubuntu in a crappy old portable hard disk which is very slow. I mounted the home folder of my laptop to the desktop using NFS. My desktop and ...
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How to set up an NFS server on ubuntu?
How do I make my ubuntu install an NFS server. So that it is accessible to another system running XBMC on my network?
Output of exportfs -v:
root@amith-dualcore:# exportfs -v
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Doing an unattended PXE installation from a local NFS volume?
I'm trying to configure unattended Ubuntu Desktop (12.10) installations booting from PXE. I've got it working, but since I had to use the initrd.gz and kernel from the mini iso, it appears only to be ...
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Mounting NFS issues - LVM - ext4
I set my ubuntu desktop up with LVM2. I don't know if that is contributing to the issue or whether I have forgotten something.
When I try to mount the external filesystem with this command:
sudo ...
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Where are the logs for NFS file operations on the network?
I have a Ubuntu server 12.04 in my network and there are 20 workstations connected with this server through NFS.
Just now someone moved my share folder and files to somewhere else.
Now I already ...
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NFS client/server trouble shooting
I have a compute and storage node. The home directory is shared via NFS.
I'm having a problem with the IO when logged from the compute node. It runs incredibly slow. For example a "$wget" or "$svn ...
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NFS mounted directory is read only
I have problem with NFS sharing. See my exports:
/export 192.168.1.11(rw,fsid=0,insecure,no_subtree_check,sync)
/export/share 192.168.1.12(rw,nohide,insecure,no_subtree_check,sync)
From a client ...
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Can not mount NFS from server on local network
I set up my NFS server without doing any bigger changes in configuration files. After that I added these entries to /etc/exports(both paths are valid) on server(192.168.1.11):
/export ...
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On nfs4 share wish new files to have the unique user name, but all have same group?
My wife and I save music files (in /mnt/audio=/srv4/audio on client) to our nsf4 share. I would like the new files to have our user name but all the same group.
I suspect I may need to add a ...
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Trash folder problem if accessing a NFS-Share via symlink
The Trash-folder of my NFS share is not found, if I access my share (or a subfolder) via symlink.
Reproduction:
- Simply make a symlink to a share or a subdir of it
--> if I accesss sth via ...
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Mount NFS problem
I try to install a nfs system between my desktop computer and my Raspberry Pi.
The RPi is the server with 192.168.1.65 IP address.
The IP address of my desktop computer is: 192.168.1.10
Here's the ...
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Should media files (HTPC) using NFS mount using fstab/static or autofs?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with XBMC and am streaming media files from my fileserver (mounted using NFS).
Right now I have fstab configured to mount my NFS share like this:
192.168.0.99:/tank/media ...
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nfs share in /etc/fstab doesn't mount on startup
I have an nfs share I'm trying to mount automatically at startup in ubuntu / xbmc
I have the following in /etc/fstab
nas:/mnt/raid /mnt/raid nfs noauto,rw,async
On startup the mount doesn't ...
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Why my NFS server can run without portmap?
I have learned from this Linux NFS-HOWTO that in order to setup a NFS server, the daemon portmap must be run first.
But why I cannot find any portmap process using ps aux | grep.
My system is ...
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NFS mount stopped working after 12.10 update
since my upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 I can't mount my NFS shares anymore.
I have a QNAP NAS and one Ubuntu machine that was using NFS for mounting.
I've used the following lines in /etc/fstab
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Adding additional users to Ubuntu server and configuring Samba
I have installed Ubuntu Server 12.10 and during the install created a user for myself ben, I now wish to add a second user bill.
I have an external drive that I have mounted to /media/storage and ...
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How to make shares only mount for particular users?
How can I set up shares to conditionally mount depending on which user logged in?
I have some shares on a NAS that I put in fstab, and the line in fstab looks like this:
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Download file directly to a remote machine
Is there any possibility to download a file to some remote machine which has ftp, ssh, nfs access. What I mean is that it doesn't have to go through the machine from which the download is issued.
