mount to NFS server failed

[Damian Menscher]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, sly wrote:
> M. Lewis wrote:
>> sly wrote:
>>> M. Lewis wrote:
>>>> sly wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> on the stkserver i shared with nfs the folder /mnt/stuff
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> and also tried w/ this:
>>> 
>>> # cat /etc/hosts.allow
>>> portmap: 222.168.100.101/255.255.255.0 : 127.
>> 
>> 
>> Try (at least temporarily) removing the entry(s) from /etc/hosts.allow
>
> i modified the /etc/hosts.deny file to deny nothing and now it works!

You never told us you had an /etc/hosts.deny file.  Out of curiosity, 
what was in it?  Not that it should have mattered here anyway....  I 
suspect one of your other changes fixed the problem.

Damian Menscher
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