Re: nfs woes


Subject: Re: nfs woes
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 08:05:37 AKST


On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Justin Dieters wrote:

>
> I'm trying to share my mp3's over my network with NFS. I followed a
> how-to I found online, and loaded the modules, started the daemons, set
> up the /etc/exports file, and everything looks right according to the
> how-to.
>
> When I try to mount the folder on my laptop, I get this message in my
> desktop /var/log/messages:
> Feb 24 23:42:01 jane rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
> 192.168.1.64:983 for /home/enderak/mp3 (/home/enderak/mp3)
>
> But on my laptop, it just sits there for a bit and then gives me an
> "mount: RPC: Timed Out" error
>
> I don't have any firewall between my laptop and my desktop.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

Do a 'rpcinfo -p' on the laptop and make sure you're running everything you
need to be running. I assume you're using NFS3 on both boxes?

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