From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 21:02:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 482D116A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:02:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from testequity.com (mach2.testequity.net [205.147.14.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA5143D2D for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:02:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from metrol@metrol.net) Received: from metwork.priv.testequity.com [192.168.3.50] by testequity.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.13) id A6DCD8BB0098; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:55:56 -0700 From: Michael Collette To: FreeBSD Mailing Lists Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:01:08 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407201401.08153.metrol@metrol.net> Subject: Re: OpenOffice on a diskless workstation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:02:17 -0000 Got this one figured out finally. Just need to have the following lines in rc.conf: nfs_client_enable="yes" rpc_lockd_enable="yes" rpc_statd_enable="yes" rpcbind_enable="yes" The clever bit that kept throwing me was needing to have the nfs client enabled. Once that was in play both lockd and statd actually ran. Geesh! Michael Collette wrote: > After running through a stack of little pitfalls in trying to get a > diskless client running from a 5-CURRENT server I'm down to the last nasty > here. Hopefully someone might be able to help out. > > OpenOffice apparently doesn't want to run across an NFS share unless a > "link_relative" option is given in the exports file. > > http://digitaldistribution.com:8080/oocommunity/FAQs/faqinstall/faqinstall/35 > > Sure enough, OpenOffice simply won't run from an NFS export on my diskless > client. Unless I can get this part of the equation playing this diskless > client project is dead in the water for me. OpenOffice is just too > critical an app. > > Is there some way to get a similar behavior to "link_relative" working? > Is there a better route to take with getting OpenOffice to work across > NFS? > > Thanks, -- "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." - Yogi Berra