I made my 1st atttempt at nfs last night to setup shares between my 2 linux boxes. In the howto i was readin it seemed fairly simple but i couldnt get it to work. Ill mess with it somemore tonight. but if anyone can see something obvious im doing wrong please say so.

on the server (god, 192.168.0.1)

i added this to /etc/exports

/usr/local 192.168.0.1 (ro) 192.168.0.2 (ro)
/home 192.168.0.1 (rw) 192.168.0.2 (rw)


hosts.deny looks like this

ALL:ALL

hosts.allow is....

swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/swat
portmap: 192.168.0.1 , 192.168.0.2
lockd: 192.168.0.1 , 192.168.0.2
rquotad: 192.168.0.1 , 192.168.0.2
mountd: 192.168.0.1 , 192.168.0.2
statd: 192.168.0.1 , 192.168.0.2

then on the client box (callandor 192.168.0.2)
i tried to run...

mount god.picklesworth.com: /home /mnt/home

and it came back with this error

unable to recieve cconnection refused


**i just reliazed something. Does NFS look into /etc/hosts or /etc/lmhosts or any of those files. if not, did this not work because i tried to mount god.picklesworth.com instead of mount 192.168.0.1?

hi..


Enabel tcpdump on both the machines and check the logs

1. Request is coming to ur mail machine ???
2.If it is coming why it is refusing the connection ??
3. First try to mount the partitiions Locally and check what error u are getting?

post the logs we can find the problem
siddiqu.T

Be careful with your spaces!! You are actually giving 192.168.0.1 & 192.168.0.2 read/write access to /usr/local, and everyone else read only access, your /usr/local line should readShouldn't there be some mention of your nfs daemon here?

As for /etc/hosts - I would make sure its setup anyway, if its not then you will need to make sure that you always use IP addresses everywhere, otherwise things will fail and there will be no mapping between the names you are using and IP addresses.

HTH

Jamie...