Pb with NFS

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 22:29 +0100, Francois wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I try to finish the install of F8 on my new laptop, and now I have a problem 
> with NFS.
> I  have created the right exports file under /etc
> I have activated the NFS services as I used to do
> I can ping from my laptop to my main computer.
> I can't ping from my main computer to the laptop
> I've added the right entries in my /etc/fstab
> Now when I run mount mymaincomputer:/home
> I get : mount : mymaincomputer:/home failed, reason given by server : 
> permission denied.
> 
> When I do the same with my old laptop, it works fine.
> The old laptop and new one have the same IP, same hostname, etc... (of 
> course I run only once at a time ;-) )
> I've tried to disable the firewall, but it doesn't help.
> where can I check to make it work ? thanks. Francois

You've not said what your old laptop ran.  I believe that F8's NFS
client wants an "fsid=" option specified even if the server doesn't have
one.  Try adding an ",fsid=1" to the end of your NFS mount options, e.g.

    mount -o rw,fsid=1 server:/sharename /mountpoint

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