[rhn-users] NFS problem with RHEL v.3

[Vinodh Cuppu]

On 11/17/2004 12:20 PM, Bruce Martin wrote:

> I am running NIS/NFS. The NIS/NFS server is currently running Red Hat 
> 7.3. I made a change in /etc/exports to try to extend NIS/NFS services 
> to  the new iMacs in our office. When I restarted NFS none of the 
> linux machines, that had been working just fine before, could mount a 
> users home directory on login. Upon investigation I had a mistype in 
> the /etc/exports file. When I fixed that and restarted NFS the Red Hat 
> 9 clients could log in and mount the users home directories but my 
> Fedora, and RHEL machines could only authenticate via NIS but could 
> not mount a users home directory via NFS. I have also reverted the 
> /etc/exports file back to it's original form but still have the same 
> problem. Has anyone experienced this and found a fix?
>
Try turning off the firewall on the RHEL & Fedora boxes or better yet 
configure the firewall to let NFS to work. I think 
redhat-config-securitylevel is used to configure firewall settings in RHEL.

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