NFS problems on FC1/5

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Tue Apr 18 03:26:24 UTC 2006


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?
> -Steven
>
OK, so what does the command:

showmount -e [fc5machine]

give you when you run it as root on the FC1 machine?  Obviously you will 
want to replace [fc5machine] with the actual name or address of the FC5 
machine.

Thomas





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