SMB/NFS Share Configuration

From CafeWiki

Setting up SMB/NFS can be incredibly painful if your hosts file on the Openfiler server is mis-configured. If you set up some form of NAS, but nothing on the network can see it, try this:

• ssh into the Openfiler box

 cat /etc/hosts

• check that the IP address for the the Openfiler box hostname is correct, if not - fix it
• cycle the network interface (by the way this is way easier from the Openfiler console)

 ifdown eth0
 ifup eth0

Yep, once you hit return after the ifdown, your ssh session is done. Go plug the spare keyboard and monitor into the Openfiler box and log in to the Openfiler console so that you can issue the ifup command. ;-)