An interesting NFS mounting problem

anil rathod anilvrathod at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 02:56:20 UTC 2007


Make the entry of your clients into your server's /etc/hosts
  vi /etc/hosts
     nfsclient1      *** IP  of client ***

On 10/10/07, Zhou, Jingchen <jingchen at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> I am having a problem to mount a NFS volume /home (exported by a RHEL4
> server nfs0) on a NFS client which is also RHEL4.
>
> The server (nfs0) is configured as such
> $ cat /etc/exports
> /home nfsclient1(rw)
>
> and the client (nfsclient1) as such:
> #cat /etc/fstab
> nfs0:/home            /home           nfs     defaults        0 0
>
> When the client boots up, I get the following error message:
>
> "Mounting NFS filesystems: mount: mount to NFS server 'nfs0' failed:
> System Error: No route to host."
>
> However, I have no problem to ping the server (nfs0) from nfsclient1 and I
> also can mount /home manually via e.g. "mount /home" from command line.
>
> Am I missing any?
>
> Thanks,
> JC
>
>
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