Re: Strange NFS problem

["Thomas Cameron" <thomas cameron camerontech com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Weaver" <mdw1982 mdw1982 com>
To: <fedora-list redhat com>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 6:59 PM
Subject: Strange NFS problem


> Hi all,
>
> Over the last 5 days I've been troubled with a very strange problem with 
> the NFS service that is running my web/mail server. Its an FC3 
> installation. For some reason, it just decided to not allow previously 
> working shares to be accessible.
>
> There is no firewall running on the machine since it sits on the LAN 
> behind a gateway firewall machine. Might anyone have any ideas as to why 
> NFS suddenly stopped allowing access to the shares that are being 
> exported?
>
> (SElinux is disabled)

There are a couple of things to check.  Does the command exportfs -va cause 
the exports to start working?  How about exportfs -vr?

If neither of those work, what does running the two commands get you?

for i in nfs nfslock portmap; do service $i stop; done
for i in portmap nfslock nfs; do service $i start; done

Of course, you want to look in /var/log/messages to see if the kernel is 
telling you anything there.

Thomas