Configuring NFS server on F8 not working

[Anoop Chandran]

On Dec 19, 2007 12:55 PM, Richard England <rlengland at verizon.net> wrote:

> I have a F7 (didius) and a F8 (poirot) machine that I am trying to
> "cross mount" directories on.
>
> I can mount F7 directories on the F8 machine using   mount -t nfs
> didius:/home/foobar /mnt/foobar
>
> But when I try the opposite, mounting the F8 directory on F7   mount -t
> nfs poirot:/home/rhombux /mnt/rhombux   it fails with the message
>
>    "mount: mount to NFS server 'poirot' failed: System Error: No route
> to host."
>
> I have tried with SELINUX and the firewall both disabled but that seems
> to have no effect.  The set up on each machine seems to be the same.
> I've set up /etc/exports on each machine
>
> On the F7 machine (didius)
> /home/foobar            poirot(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
>
> On the F8 machine (poirot)
> /home/rhombux        didius(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
>
> exportfs -a returns no errors.  NFS seems to be enabled
>
> [root at didius rengland]# /sbin/service nfs status
> rpc.mountd (pid 2464) is running...
> nfsd (pid 2461 2460 2459 2458 2457 2456 2455 2454) is running...
> rpc.rquotad (pid 2446) is running...
>
>
> [root at poirot rengland]# /sbin/service nfs status
> rpc.mountd (pid 1990) is running...
> nfsd (pid 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980) is running...
> rpc.rquotad (pid 1972) is running...
>
> I can ping each machine from the other and I can use ssh to access each
> of the machines from the other.
>
> Can anyone point me at some further diagnostics I can look at or perhaps
> give me some hints about other things I can try?  I had this working
> when both machines were F7.  I'm beginning to suspect and F8 issue but
> I'm at the end of my ideas.
>

Does `showmount` command list any exported mount points on FC8 server?

didius$ showmount -e poirot


> I'm going to be away from the machine for a while but this is driving me
> further nuts and I had to ask.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~~Richard
>
> --
> fedora-list mailing list
> fedora-list at redhat.com
> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
>



-- 
- Anoop
 <>_<>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20071219/e20914f8/attachment-0001.htm>