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Running Samba 3.0.14a under kernal 2.6.11-1.1369 (Fedora core 4) I'm trying to set up a file server for use with XP network. I have an interesting problem that came to light when I had difficulty connecting from Windows. I can set up a shared directory exactly as detailed in the troubleshooting guide (setting up /tmp as tmp) and can connect from my account on the server. If I try to

...CONFIG_ROOT_NFS is set to y on the client. I did copy the installation from the client hard disk to /tftpboot on the master. Copied vmlinuz, I used a kernel with no modules (to make things easier .. well that I thought), in /tftpboot. Setup the default in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg as follow: LABEL linux_test KERNEL vmlinuz APPEND root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp noinitrd OK, when I boot the client via LAN it gets the IP from the DHCP server, finds the kernel, loads the kernel but then I always get the error: VFS: Cannot open the root device "nfs" on 00:ff please append a correct "root=" b...

Hi. I'm quite new in Linux under-the-hood. I'm trying to net-boot a tablet Pc with no CD and FD. I successfully installed and configured DHCP and TFTP. I wrote a /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default config file as follows: > label linux_test > kernel vmlinuz > append root=initrd but it seems to ignore the two directives "kernel" and "append" as it says that no file named "linux" was found and prompts "boot:". If I keyboard-input "vmlinuz" the loading goes on, i...

Following on from my missing directories post the other day, I have narrowed the problem down to the following cases. It seems that I can see files or directories where the Last Changed Attribute of a file or directory is "Unknown". Where it is set to a valid date, the file simply doesn't appear. It doesn't matter is I'm connecting from Linux or Windows. Any thoughts