[Solved] NFS shares root filesystem

Question

[edit] Sorry, my fault. I was using Nautilus m(
and i think it silently switiched to using sftp.... still wondering why no password was prompted.
Hi!
I set up nfs following the wiki. It works, but i can access the whole remote-root-filesystem, not just the nfs-root. Is https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NFS up to date?
greetings
Server:
cat /etc/exports
/srv/nfs4/ 192.168.0.0/24(ro,fsid=0,no_subtree_check)
/srv/nfs4/a 192.168.0.0/24(ro,no_subtree_check)
/srv/nfs4/b 192.168.0.0/24(ro,no_subtree_check)
[root@alarmpi srv]#
Client:
showmount -e 192.168.0.116
Export list for 192.168.0.116:
/srv/nfs4/a 192.168.0.0/24
/srv/nfs4/b 192.168.0.0/24
/srv/nfs4 192.168.0.0/24
Last edited by matto (2015-03-22 14:50:59)

Answer 1

Thanks for the hints. Meanwhile, I have done some more background reading on running Arch in VMWare Player. In particular I followed the guidelines in this article. So it turns out that X requires some special configuration when run from within VMWare.
pacman -S xf86-input-vmmouse xf86-video-vmware xf86-video-vesa svga-dri
and a vmwgfx module is supposed to be loaded. I installed tha packages and tried to load vmwgfx, but when I do lsmod I just can't see it. Then it was pointed out to me that it might be a kernel mismatch problem. The linux installed on nfsroot is 3.6.2 whereas for some reason uname -a gives me version 3.5.6.
I've tried to rebuild initramfs with the new kernel using -k switch of mkinicpio, but it didn't help. It still boots into 3.5.6. It as if the initramfs from the client was taking precedence. So then I went back to the previous image of my VM, updated the system, made appropriate changes to mkinitcpio.conf and run mkinitcpio... and it no longer boots. mount: protocol not supported. I will post the details in my other topic.