[Mageia-discuss] home network using broadband router

[imnotpc]

On 03/09/2012 09:53 PM, WALKER RICHARD wrote:
> "You didn't answer my question about whether or not Smoothwall always
> assigns the same IP to the server box. This is important since if it
> doesn't then every time the server restarts the network interface you
> are taking a chance it will get assigned a different IP and break the
> client fstab entries."
>
> Sorry, that was in the first reply which disappeared in a flash of
> accidentally highlighted text. I have taken no particular steps to
> influence Smoothwall's DHCP address allocation other than to limit the
> dynamic addresses to the range from 100 to 127. By observation, over
> the last ten years or so, the same interfaces tend to get the same
> addresses, though it may also depend on which machine hosts the boot
> disc I am preparing. The maximum lease time is 2 hours, but I doubt if
> that has much to do with it. Maybe I'm just lucky; I cannot remember
> the last time I noticed an address change.

I don't use dhcp except for wireless but I think most dhcp implentations 
generally use the same IPs over again, you just can't rely on it. Static 
IPs also allow for specialized firewall and routing configurations, but 
if it works and you're happy with the configuration I wouldn't worry 
about it.

> "Has this configuration ever worked correctly? The exports file looks
> fine but IIRC the fstab entry should match the exports file path, i.e.
> it should be: 192.168.0.101:/home/richmag/Videos /mnt/Videos ...."
>
> Sorry again, perhaps I should have made these entries look "more
> normal". Because the boot disc which provided the MGA1 and 2010.2
> environments on this box has been used for a lot of testing of
> upgrades and 32/64 bit environments I use a system of hidden home
> directories and boot-time generated symlinks to match my home
> directories to my current user name. In recent times I have noticed
> that applications may sometimes unexpectedly use the real directory
> name and sometimes as expected the name of the symlink. I have long
> since stopped worrying about how to fix this "problem"; it looks
> stupid but it still works.

It is a bit unusual but I don't think this is your problem, and again, 
if it ain't broken...

> So the answer is yes, this always works as expected. I have only been
> able to make if fail reliably (:-) in Mageia 1 with an unmodified port
> parameter for rpc.mountd. As noted above I have also completed a test
> under Mageia 2 (using a different boot disc on the same box) and it
> works perfectly - no need to hack /etc/sysconfig/nfs-server.
>
> I'm off to bed now - long journey in the morning. Here is the report
> from the MGA2 system which is working just fine. I'll try to get the
> same info for the broken MGA1 setup tomorrow.
>
> [root at Tureen rich]# systemctl status nfs-server.service
> nfs-server.service - LSB: Kernel NFS server support
> 	  Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs-server)
> 	  Active: active (running) since Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:43:32 +0000; 4min 52s ago
> 	 Process: 1540 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs-server start
> (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
> 	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/nfs-server.service
> 		  └ 1645 rpc.mountd --port 4003

You mentioned in an earlier post that the mga1 box worked once after you 
commented out the RPCMOUNTD_OPTIONS="--port 4003" option in 
/etc/sysconfig/nfs-server. I just checked the mga1 test server I set up 
yesterday and this option isn't set at all. Is it possible you are 
mixing files from different Mandriva/Mageia versions? Perhaps try 
un-installing nfs-utils and deleting all it's config files and start 
again with a clean package install.