NFS Fedora 7

[Mike Chambers]

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 11:35 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 6/6/07, Tom Weniger <trweniger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/6/07, CH <linux at code-heads.com> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I did a fresh install of Fedora 7 off the live CD. After that I did a yum
> > > install what I wanted and updated it.
> > >
> > > With FC6 I have no problem connecting to a another linux box using NFS.
> > > Now I have a problem doing that.
> > >
> > > When I try to mount it, it says "input/output error". What the heck am I
> > > missing here?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Will
> > >
> > Greetings Will,
> >
> > I believe that the new version (NFSv4) has quite a few changes in it
> > that I was planning on learning this weekend. It also seems that
> > portmapper has been deprecated since I cannot find it locally or on
> > the repositories. Suggestions from the rest of the gallery would be
> > appreciated too.

turn on rpcbind and you'll be all set.  That is the service to use now
instead of portmapper.

I had no problems on my FC7 test boxes connecting to an FC6 NFS box
(used it for my installs actually as well), and it worked quite well.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"Best little town on Earth!"