[Lilug] NAS mounting problem

[Will]

  Ok, I think I figured it out...  

 When I ran "netstat -p|grep ", I got this:   

 tcp        0      0 :727 :sunrpc TIME_WAIT   -  

 So, there's a problem when trying to contact the server itself, but
it pings with zero packet loss. I suspect there's a problem with the
NFS part of the NAS we're using.   

 On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:33:42 +0000, Will  wrote:  
 Yup, tried that and it's still not working.  

 I completely forgot about strace though, I'll be sure to give that a
try.   

 On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:55:46 -0800 (PST), Brendan Ford  wrote:     
Yeah, it's never that simple :(
 Have you tried it at the commandline without the variables?
 EG:
     mount MyNas:/shared /nas
 I kinda doubt that will do it too because if the command itself is
faulty, you would expect to get an error back right away.  
 Also, try running the mount with strace to hopefully see where it is
hanging.
 Are you able to see the share using a filemanager GUI?
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 From: Will 
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 Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 6:08:11 PM
 Subject: Re: [Lilug] NAS mounting problem
 Nope, that doesn't seem to be doing it...
 On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:28:29 -0800 (PST), Brendan Ford  wrote:
    Will,
  Depending on your shell, the colon immediately after your variable
can be causing something other than what you expect.  Try enclosing
the HOSTNAME in curlies to avoid this confusion:
     mount -t nfs -o hard,intr,nfsvers=2 ${HOSTNAME}:$SHARE
$MOUNTPOINT
 I hope that helps,
 -Frd
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 From: Will 
 To: lilug at lilug.org
 Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 3:56:49 PM
 Subject: [Lilug] NAS mounting problem
 Ok, so I've run into a bit of a problem...
 We're running a streaming video server at my job, and rather then
pay the
 company we got it from for a 2 terabyte upgrade, we wanted to use a
NAS. (I
 know, it's a very bad idea, but it beats forking over tons of money
for
 something as simple as a hard disk)
 The machine is running a 2.4 kernel,
with some version of Red Hat.
The NAS
 is running windows server 2003.
 When I tried to mount the NAS through samba, I discovered that the
kernel
 doesn't have smbfs support built in, so I tried using NFS instead.
The
 problem is, whenever I use the mount command, it just hangs. Here's
the
 relevant line from the script I wrote:
 mount -t nfs -o hard,intr,nfsvers=2 $HOSTNAME:$SHARE $MOUNTPOINT
 I tried various versions of NFS, but it still doesn't seem to work.
I also
 tried just passing "mount $HOSTNAME:$SHARE $MOUNTPOINT", but that
didn't
 work either. Whenever I run the command, it just hangs, and I have
to open
 up another terminal and run killall on my script.
 The NAS can be pinged from the machine, so it's accessible from the
 network. The variables I'm specifying are correct as well.
 Anybody have a clue what may be going on?
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