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Unable to mount NFS share from a qnap nas
Michail Pappas:
@nicolatiana: thank you for your post.
Both of you suggest to install smeserver-nfs smecontribs. And this is confusing a bit for me: does this mean that one can not backup to nfs, using the built-in backup functionality of SME, unless a contribs package is installed?
If smeserver-nfs is needed for backup to NFS to work, why isn't it included in the first place? Should a bug be opened for this?
Perhaps I am missing out something here and my question is stupid, please bear with me...
nicolatiana:
Definitively: yes you have to install. Backup (formerly Backup with Dar) is a pre-built module of Sme distribution while NFS not.
Bug or not bug ? Maybe it's necessary to add a warning in the manual page http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:Administration_Manual:Chapter10#Backup_or_restore and here -> http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_with_dar
Nicola
nicolatiana:
http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_with_dar#Backup_file_slices_are_NOT_autonomous
Made some changes just to warn users; I can confirm that I use several flavours of Qnap as backup destination for Affa all of them mounted in SME folders.
Nicola
Michail Pappas:
Thank you for the clarification. From the looks of it, it seems like a bug: that is, if the package was required, for the backup functionality of SME to work, then smeserver-nfs should be installed in the first place.
EDIT: I have opened bug 7006 for this.
ReetP:
I do not believe that you specifically need smeserver-nfs to mount a remote system FROM your SME server.
This contrib allows you to enable and configure your SME server as a NFS server itself. If you look inside the RPM there is no executable file - just templates for configuring NFS on your SME server.
However, smeserver-nfs understandably depends on nfs-utils for the server part, so installing it will automatically bring in the nfs-utils with both client and server binaries.
As a client you really only need nfs-utils, which is in base, but it does not look like it is installed by default. That should be followed up in your bug report.
I'll make a note on the wiki page.
HTH
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