Configuring NFS server on F8 not working

[Richard England]

Richard England wrote:
> Anoop Chandran wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Dec 19, 2007 12:55 PM, Richard England <rlengland at verizon.net 
>> <mailto: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
>>
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>> -- 
>> - Anoop
>>  <>_<> 
>
>
> [root at didius rengland]# /usr/sbin/showmount -e poirot
> [root at didius rengland]#
>
>
>
By the way,  going the other way, I get:

[root at poirot rengland]# /usr/sbin/showmount -e didius
Export list for didius:
/home/foobar poirot