mount to NFS server failed

[sly]

Damian Menscher wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, sly wrote:
> 
>> M. Lewis wrote:
>>
>>> sly wrote:
>>>
>>>> on the stkserver i shared with nfs the folder /mnt/stuff
>>>> i edit the exports file:
>>>>
>>>> cat /etc/exports
>>>> /mnt/stuff/              222.169.100.0/24(rw,sync,all_squash)
>>>> exportfs -a
> 
> 
> If you had this filesystem exported previously, you should do an 
> exportfs -ua before the exportfs -a.
> 
>> Jul 17 17:30:51 stkserver portmap[2894]: connect from 222.169.100.101 
>> to getport(nfs): request from unauthorized host
>>
>> on the server i had this:
>>
>> # cat /etc/hosts.allow
>> portmap: 222.168.100. : 127.
> 
> 
> What's with the "127." ?  Try this:

i found this option in a book! 127. is for allowing 127.0.0.1

> 
> portmap: 222.168.100. : ALLOW

did this change. tried also the exportfs -ua command. and i still get 
the same message! :(

> 
>>> I assume you restarted NFS after making the changes?
>>
>>
>> did it! every time!
> 
> 
> Totally unnecessary.
> 
> Damian Menscher