I think this is probably trival to do compared to using samba to allow win32 machines to read/write directories (an issue on which I authored a howto on)... I'd be very thankful if someone would write a howto detailing stepwise how one can share a directory on a myth masterserver box, and then mount this share on a slave mythbox so that the slave's mythvideo module can use the files

on master: share out the /myth/video read only
on slave: mount the share in the local /myth/video

Thanks in advance

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I followed the instructions on that link, and relevent files displayed below
Also, i did a

$ mkdir /myth/video/master
on the frontend's machine since that is where I would like to mount the NFS share from the mater's HD

Can you see a reason why I cannot get the nfs share to work? (I tried doing a /etc/fstab -a after editing it but I got:

bash: /etc/fstab: Permission denied)

Backend's /etc/exports:

# /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported
# to NFS clients. See exports(5).
/myth/video (r)

Frontend's /etc/fstab:

# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda3 /cache auto defaults,auto 0 2
/dev/hda4 /myth auto defaults,auto 0 2

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0

# Added for NFS
mythtv_server:/myth/video /myth/video/master nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,nfsvers=3

# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 none swap defaults 0 0

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That should be exportfs -a

Also, the nfs stuff on R4 is busted. Try updating with apt-get.

Which components do you reommend updating? Here are the options apt-get
gives me:

nfs-client nfs-kernel-server nfs-user-server nfsbooted
nfs-common nfs-server nfsboot

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Just took a peek in my /var/lib/dpkg/info dir and see that I updated nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server.

 
apt-get install nfs-kernel-server

apt-get install nfs-common
 

OK... did that. Also began reading the NFS HOWTO and it seems as though I need to:



When I do a # rpcinfo -p I get:

root@mythtv-bedroom:/myth/video/master# rpcinfo -p
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper

So it's no wonder when I do a:

# mount 192.168.0.4:/myth/video/ /myth/video/master

I get:

mount: RPC: Program not registered

So I'm missing all of the deamons and have no idea how to add them. Anyone?

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Is nfsd running on the master?

ps -ef | grep nfs

mythtv@mythtv_server:~ $ ps -ef | grep nfs
root 352 1 0 17:50 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 353 1 0 17:50 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 354 1 0 17:50 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 357 1 0 17:50 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 358 1 0 17:50 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 359 1 0 17:50 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 360 1 0 17:50 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 361 1 0 17:50 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
mythtv 579 563 0 19:06 pts/0 00:00:00 grep nfs

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Then, as root, to get things started:

/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start
/etc/init.d/nfs-common start

(They don't start at boot.)

NFS is still broken on unstable. Get it from stable like this:
apt-get -t stable install nfs-common nfs-kernel-server

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Even after staring both manually and doing a # exportfs -ra still no luck

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