I cannot, no matter what i do, get nfs with ubuntu working. Whenever I try to mount I get

ryan@ubuntu:~ $ cd /mnt
ryan@ubuntu:/mnt $ ls
backup nfs pool
ryan@ubuntu:/mnt $ sudo mount backup
mount: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused
ryan@ubuntu:/mnt $ sudo mount nfs
mount: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused
ryan@ubuntu:/mnt $ sudo mount pool
mount: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused
ryan@ubuntu:/mnt $

I will come back and edit my post in a second when I log onto the other machine and can paste in my other files. Be right back.

On the server end, here is my /etc/exports file

# /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported
# to NFS clients. See exports(5).

/nfs/nfs 192.168.2.166(rw,no_root_squash) 192.168.2.134(ro)
/nfs/pool 192.168.2.166(rw,no_root_squash) 192.168.2.134(rw,no_root_squash)
/nfs/backup/ryan 192.168.2.166(rw,no_root_squash)
/nfs/backup/georgina 192.168.2.134(rw,no_root_squash)


and here is my /etc/hosts.allow file

# /etc/hosts.allow: list of hosts that are allowed to access the system.
# See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5)
# and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz
#
# Example: ALL: LOCAL @some_netgroup
# ALL: .foobar.edu EXCEPT terminalserver.foobar.edu
#
# If you're going to protect the portmapper use the name "portmap" for the
# daemon name. Remember that you can only use the keyword "ALL" and IP
# addresses (NOT host or domain names) for the portmapper, as well as for
# rpc.mountd (the NFS mount daemon). See portmap(8), rpc.mountd(8) and
# /usr/share/doc/portmap/portmapper.txt.gz for further information.
#

portmap: 192.168.2.166 , 192.168.2.134
lockd: 192.168.2.166 , 192.168.2.134
rquotad: 192.168.2.166 , 192.168.2.134
mountd: 192.168.2.166 , 192.168.2.134
statd: 192.168.2.166 , 192.168.2.134


and here is my /etc/hosts.deny file

# /etc/hosts.deny: list of hosts that are _not_ allowed to access the system.
# See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5)
# and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz
#
# Example: ALL: some.host.name, .some.domain
# ALL EXCEPT in.fingerd: other.host.name, .other.domain
#
# If you're going to protect the portmapper use the name "portmap" for the
# daemon name. Remember that you can only use the keyword "ALL" and IP
# addresses (NOT host or domain names) for the portmapper. See portmap(8)
# and /usr/doc/portmap/portmapper.txt.gz for further information.
#
# The PARANOID wildcard matches any host whose name does not match its
# address.

# You may wish to enable this to ensure any programs that don't
# validate looked up hostnames still leave understandable logs. In past
# versions of Debian this has been the default.
# ALL: PARANOID

portmap:ALL
lockd:ALL
mountd:ALL
rquotad:ALL
statd:ALL


Can anyone notice anything wrong with these files that would be causing this?? Ttyl. Thanks

This might sound too easy..! But make sure you allow nfs through your firewall on the target system.

Cheers,

Martin

solution for me (I had the same problem): http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/d...faq/nfs-server
just comment the line in /etc/default/portmap and restart portmap.

hth
stefan