I followed guidelines on:

http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=NFSHowTo

But they don't seem to start up, when I reboot the machine ?
I have to issue,

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

then everything works ?

I did the,

update-rc.d nfs-common defaults
update-rc.d nfs-kernel-server defaults

and if I do them again, they say that they are already there.... what can I check ?

if I issue an exportfs -ra from the server.

Everything works fine from the clients .... how can I automate this - so that this is issued each time the server boots ?

Your nfs-kernel-server should be handling that for you. What do you get when you issue
Can you post the contents of your /etc/exports file? And what version of KM are you using?

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root "date" /etc/rc5.d/S20nfs-common -> ../init.d/nfs-common

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root "date" /etc/rc5.d/S20nfs-kernel-server -> ../init.d/nfs-kernel-server

OK, that looks fine. You might try removing them (update-rc.d -f nfs-kernel-server remove and update-rc.d -f nfs-common remove) and try installing them again, in case something failed the first time around.

So, can we see your /etc/exports file, and convince you to divulge the version of KnoppMyth you are playing with?

R5E50

I actually did try removing them and adding them again...

I think I found the problem... I am using SYMLINKS on the backend, then from the client, I did a remote mount to those SYMLINKS. The SYMLINKS are in /myth/video directory.

Apparently it wasn't enough I put the SYMLINKS into the "exports" file, I also needed to put the direct link in there.. like /media/MAXTOR.

Thanks !

I'm not entirely sure what you mean here, but if the nfs-kernel-server script doesn't find any lines beginning with / in your /etc/exports file then it assumes no exports have been created. I have not tried exporting sym-links before, but I would be surprised if they didn't work.

/myth/video/Film1 is a symlink to /media/MAXTOR/Video

to me it looks like I need both in my exports file, otherwise the symlink will not work when mounting IP:/myth/video/Film1 from remote client.