Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Mounting Linux NFS shares in Solaris 10

First, export a filesystem on your Linux box (add it to the exports file, and exportfs). Make sure the kernel-nfs server service is started.
# /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start
Edit your exports file:
# ed /etc/exports
i
/home/cmihai 192.168.1.13/24(rw,no_root_squash,subtree_check,async)
w
q
Export the filesystem:
# exportfs
/home/cmihai 192.168.1.13/24
# showmount -e
Export list for loonix:
/home/cmihai 192.168.1.13/24

On your Solaris 10 box, run:
# showmount -e loonix
export list for loonix:
/home/cmihai 192.168.1.13/24
It should give you results consistent with the results you got on your Linux machine.
Trying to mount the share as NFSv4 will fail (Linux NFSv4 isn't compatible with Solaris NFSv4).
# mount loonix:/home/cmihai /storage
nfs mount: mount: /storage: Not owner
So we're going to mount the share as NFSv3:
# mount -o vers=3 loonix:/home/cmihai /storage
# mount
/storage on loonix:/home/cmihai remote/read/write/setuid/devices/vers=3/xattr/dev=4840010 on Tue Mar 18 14:59:06 2008
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5 comments:

  1. The Chopper5:36 PM

    I ran into the same problem and the above didn't help. However, the problem and it's cure are quite nicely explained here (setting sec=sys was the only option I was missing):
    http://blogs.sun.com/tdh/entry/some_nasty_nfsv3_interactions_at

    Cheers

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  2. Anonymous2:04 AM

    Nice post.. it helped. I didn't click on any of your ads though.

    Cheers!

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  3. cmihai12:23 AM

    There should be no ads on the site (at least none that I enabled). Check for adware? :-).

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  4. Kevin7:53 PM

    I was very glad to find this post. Even though it was from 2008, it solved my problem.

    Thanks

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  5. sugarboy3:59 PM

    Is it possible to mount NFS soft link on Solaris? am getting error "No Such or Directory exists" when tried?

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