[K12OSN] File Server problem

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 12:25, Jennifer Waters wrote:

> Application server
> mount /home
> mount to NFS server 'ss03.madison.ppsnet' failed: 
> server is down.
> 
> On another server I got this,
> mount: RPC: Remote system error - no route to host.
> 
> This is the line that I had in fstab:
> ss03.madison.ppsnet:/home  /home  nfs defaults,
> rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
> 
> Any suggestions?

Assuming you have basic network connectivity (ping works, etc.) you
might need 'service nfs start' on the server (and if so, you need
to 'chkconfig --level 345 nfs on' to make it start at bootup.
Or, if you are running iptables firewalling on either client or
server you make need to drop or modify it.  You can do a
'showmount -e' on the server and the client should see the
same list with 'showmount -e ss03.madison.ppsnet' if the services
are running and not blocked.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com