Trying to Create NFS Mount

UNIX Solaris
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Hello, I am trying to create a NFS mount from one Solaris server to another.

Both servers have the following OS:
SunOS MySvr 5.9 Generic_118558-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240

I created a directory MySvr called /oracle_dir

I also created a directory on MySvr2 called /db/oracle_dir

I added the following entries to the /etc/dfs/dfstab file on both servers:
MySvr:

share -F nfs  -o public,nosuid,ro,anon=-1  -d "oracle directories" /oracle_dir

MySvr2:

share -F nfs  -o public,nosuid,ro,anon=-1  -d "oracle directories" /db/oracle_dir

I mounted the NFS mount point on MySvr:

mount 10.21.33.15:/db/oracle_dir /oracle_dir

I then started the nfs server on both servers:

/etc/init.d/nfs.server start

When I attempt to do a df -k on MySvr, I get the following error:

NFS fsstat failed for server 10.51.13.11: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error)
df: cannot statvfs /oracle_dir: Permission denied

Any ideas on how to correct this issue? Thank you in advance for your assistance. By the way I am an Oracle DBA, NOT a Unix admin so please go easy on me. We have no admin. Thank you.

David

2

An NFS server requires various daemons to be started, e.g. the portmapper, try looking at the following for details of all of them:
BigAdmin Submitted Tech Tip: Introducing NFS Fundamentals for the Solaris OS

This site is helpful also:
Troubleshooting Solaris NFS Problems

You are running:

/etc/init.d/nfs.server start

As the root user aren't you?

3

Tony, thank you for the reply. I am running everything as root. I will look at these links.

David

4

you should start the nfs services first BEFORE using the mount command

5

On the NFS client side, the mount point directory should be an empty directory. It looks like you are trying to share out the mount point directory.

mount 10.21.33.15:/db/oracle_dir /mountDir

Where /mountDir is an empty directory not shared in /etc/dfs/dfstab

6

check both servers version of nfs

7

First I think you are doing NFS Sharing and mount wrong way.

If I am not wrong, then you want to Share "/db/oracle_dir" directory on 10.21.33.15 server and mount this resource on to second server (on /oracle_dir).If it is so, then do following :

  1. On 10.21.33.15 :

#share /db/oracle_dir

  1. On Second server :

#mkdir /oracle_dir

#mount 10.21.33.15:/db/oracle_dir /oracle_dir

And if still you face error regarding "Permission denied"
then,
Plz post the out put of following commands :

#ls -ld /db/oracle_dir ------>>> from 10.21.33.15

and

#ls -ld /oracle_dir ----->>>> from second server.

8

That worked! Thank you for all you assistance. The device was initially busy but a reboot took care of that.

:slight_smile:

David