nfs mounting a local disk under solaris 10

[adler at stephenadler.com (Stephen Adler)]

I tried that but there is no /var/log/messages. There's a 
/var/log/syslog but that has nothing in it...
Solaris is sooo frustrating!

Matthew Gillen wrote:
> Stephen Adler wrote:
>   
>> Guys,
>>
>> I'm trying to setup autofs on solaris 10 and I'm having trouble getting
>> the /export/home
>> directory properly mounted for the home directories. The way I usually
>> test autofs is
>> by checking to see if I can nfs mount /export/home even on the same
>> system which
>> serves /export/home. But on solaris I seem not to be able to do so. I
>> get the following
>>
>> bash-3.00# mount solaris10:/export/home/root /testnfs
>> nfs mount:  retrying:  /testnfs
>> ^C
>> bash-3.00# hostname
>> solaris10
>> bash-3.00# share
>> -                           /export/home/root         rw,log=global   
>> "home dirs"
>>
>> All advice is greatly appricated.
>>     
>
> checking /var/log/messages is my best weapon for situations like this.  I
> don't know if solaris would put NFS messages somewhere else, but it's a good
> place to start.
>
> Matt
>
>   


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