Re: AS/400 NFS to Linux Help

Scott,

how do you setup NFS on the linux to access the as400 IFS?

cheers
Colin.W
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Klement" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: AS/400 NFS to Linux Help


>
> > I need to mount a linux nfs to a path on the as/400, i've tried ADDMFS
> > and MOUNT, all of which return a "Cannot find address for specified
> > system name", the command I'm using is:
> >
> > MOUNT TYPE(*NFS) MFS('192.168.1.156:/as400') MNTOVRDIR('/LINUX')
> > CODEPAGE(*ASCII *ASCII)
>
> Hmmmm...  I just tried typing the following command on my system:
>    MOUNT TYPE(*NFS) MFS('192.168.5.7:/home') MNTOVRDIR('/mnt')
>           CCSID(*ASCII *ASCII)
>
> I didn't get any errors.  When I went to view the files with WRKLNK '/mnt'
> they were all there, I was able to view them, edit them, etc.
>
> >
> > I've tried substituting ADDMFS instead of MOUNT,
>
> That won't matter. the ADDMFS command and the MOUNT command are the same
> thing.  They call the same underlying program.
>
>
> > In my TCP/IP host tables I have my local ip and the system.doman.com
> > setup, as do I have it in the domain information setup. And can't for
> > the life of me figure this out, it confuses me greatly that I can map
> > the as/400 from the linux box, but I can't do the reverse to get the
> > linux onto the as/400.
>
> Are you sure that you have an NFS server running on the Linux box?  It
> seems peculiar to me that you're using SMB to access the iSeries from the
> Linux box, but NFS in the other direction.
>
> Have you tried accessin the iSeries via NFS from the Linux box?  (It works
> a whole lot better than SMB, in my opinion!)
>
> I use DNS here instead of the HOSTS table.  I guess that could be the
> difference. But, since you're accessing it by IP address anyway, I don't
> see why it would matter?  In fact, I just tried ending my DNS server,
> running MOUNT again, and it still works even though the host can't be
> looked up!
>
> > If anyone has any experience with doing a linux NFS on a as/400 I'd
> > greatly appreciate the assistance in this.
>
> Heh... my experience has been "it just works."  I haven't needed to
> troubleshoot anything, because nothing ever goes wrong.
>
> Here are some ideas of things you can check:
>
> a) Make sure the NFS daemon, portmapper, RPC, etc are running on the Linux
> box.
>
> b) Make sure that the iSeries has been given permission to mount things
> from the Linux box in the /etc/exports file.
>
>
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