First off, i want to apologize. Having a very busy day at the office made me forget to update this thread, i promise to make good for that first thing tomorrow morning. Sorry.


This is probably where your error is. You DO NOT EXPORT ANYTHING! Instead "allocate" a resource (SPOT, mksysb, ...) to a client. NIM will do the exporting, mounting, unmounting and unexporting all on its own. You "allocate" (NIMs wording) the resource using the "nim" command:

Code:

nim -o allocate -a spot=<spotname> -a lpp_source=<lpp_name> <clientname>

or you can do it using a SMIT panel (search in "NIM->NIM Administration Tasks->somewhere", i don't know it by heart).

You might want to read this little introduction i once wrote in the meanwhile to get acquainted to NIMs and AIXs terminology.

There are, of course, more in-depth sources too: i can wholeheartedly recommend the IBM Redbook on NIM. Despite the seemingly outdated version number it is still quite up-to-date. NIM is a very stable software and major changes haven't taken place since this book.


Yes, if you use NFS3 or lower.

If you use NFS4 you need nfsrgyd to be running. Further you need to have both machines (server and client) in the same NFS domain. Use the chnfsdom command to display and/or set the NFS domain. I use to set it to a value equal to the respective DNS domain, but this isn't required. Notice that for NFS4 you also need some FS as a "stable storage", preferably one without an external JFS log but using an "inline log" instead.

I hope this helps.

bakunin