NFS problem

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 17:43 -0700, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> I'm trying to set up an NFS file server on one of the boxes on my LAN
> and have gotten stuck. On the server, I used system-config-nfs to create
> the following /etc/exports file:
> 
> /home/magnusg/music  192.168.1.11(rw,sync) 192.168.1.12(rw,sync)
> 192.168.1.13(rw,sync)
> 
> to allow the other three boxes r/w access to the
> directory /home/magnusg/music on the server (192.168.1.14).
> 
> Also on the server, I used system-config-services to start nfs and
> nfslock on run levels 3 and 5. Then I checked NFS4 on the firewall
> configuration widget system-config-firewall to open tcp and udp ports
> 2049. Then I rebooted the server.
> 
> On one of the clients I then did (as root):
> 
> mkdir /mnt/PuteF
> mount 192.168.1.14:/home/magnusg/music /mnt/PuteF
> 
> and got the error message:
> mount: mount to NFS server '192.168.1.14' failed: System Error: No route
> to host
> 
> I'm guessing I need to open more ports, but which ones and where? The
> four boxes are connected to a Linksys router.
> 
> Thanks for the help! --Jerry
No route to host sounds more like a connection problem. You can ssh between the machines?
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