NFS problems on FC1/5

[Rex Dieter]

Steven Pasternak wrote:
> Hi! I have an old machine running FC1 and my main machine running FC5. I 
> am on a local network, and tried to set up nfs between the two. For some 
> reason, though, they seem invisible. I used the redhat tool on the FC1 
> machine to set up the server, and even restarted the /etc/init.d/nfs 
> file. On the FC5 machine (client), I have tried with nautilus, but it 
> just doesn't see the other computer. I even tried killing the firewalls 
> on both machines. I have been able to get two mandriva 2005 machines to 
> work flawlessly. I haven't changed any settings with the router or 
> anything. I set the host to * in /etc/exports (like in mandriva), and 
> had an almost identical rest of the file. Mandriva, though, had a tool 
> to find shares on the network, where fedora just has nautilus. What am I 
> doing wrong?

AFAIK, the default Firewall settings of Fedora Core block NFS 
server/client responses (mostly on the server-side).  You could try 
turning off the firewall to see if that's it.

-- Rex