Re: [MiNT] NFS server

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 10:50 +0200, Lars Schmidbauer wrote:
> --EasyMinT 1.70, nfs-server-2.2beta47-2
> 
> Hello,
> once again i tried to install a NFS between my beloved Falcon/CT60 with MinT/XaAES/TeraDesk as
> NFS-server, an Ubuntu-Linux PC and my No.2-Falcon as clients. Connection established, the 'shared'
> directory (see /etc/exports below) is displayed correct with 'showmount -e <falcon-ip>' on both
> clients, but there are two problems when copying files:
> -ID-mapping (squashing):
>  If i copy a file from PC -> Server, the group-ID is mapped correct to '500' but the user-ID is
>  set to '0' (root) instead of '301' (see /etc/exports). When copying files from No.2-Falcon -> Server,
>  both UID and GID are mapped correct!!? Perhaps the server don't know about UIDs >= 1000 (on PC i'm
>  logged in as a 'normal user', UID=1000 GID=1000; not as 'root', so option 'no_root_squash' isn't
>  useful here).

Not sure about this as I run the other way using MiNT as a client.

> -Copying large files:
>  There's no problem with 'downloading' large files from server to both clients, but when i try to
>  copy a large file from any client to server, copy-operation aborts after ~10-20 seconds (no matter
>  if copying was started on desktop or in bash; bash reports 'write failure'). I tried different
>  values for 'rsize' and 'wsize' in /etc/fstab on PC (and for the fourth entry in /etc/fstab on
>  No.2-Falcon) with always same result.

But I have run into this on several occasions, and resorted to scp'ing
things around for now, until I get some time to look into the problem.

Alan.