mount to NFS server failed

[sly]

Damian Menscher wrote:
> 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 

i followed the instructions from a book, and it said the /etc/hosts.deny 
should have:

portmap: ALL

and as soon as i deleted this line it worked!

> suspect one of your other changes fixed the problem.
> 
> Damian Menscher