On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:38:41 -0700, Taylor, ForrestX <forrestx.taylor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 11:28, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I have two PC's: bullet.espersunited.com and baby.espersunited.com I > > would like to mount some of bullet's directories on baby. I started the > > NFS service on bullet and ran redhat-config-nfs. I set up /backup on > > bullet to be the directory exported and to only export it to > > baby.espersunited.com . bullet doesn't have a monitor hooked up to it; > > I always access it through ssd. I logged out of bullet and returned to > > baby and issued the mount command: > > > > [root@baby root]# mount bullet.espersunited.com:/backup /backup/bullet > > mount: RPC: Remote system error - No route to host > > > > I know there's a route to bullet because I just ssh'd over there. I > > thought maybe it was because the NFS daemon on baby wasn't running. I > > entered "service nfs start": > > > > [root@baby root]# service nfs start > > Starting NFS services: [ OK ] > > Starting NFS quotas: Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; > > errno = Connection refused > > This is most likely a firewall issue. Open up ports 111 (TCP & UDP), > 2049 (TCP & UDP), and 4002 (UDP) on both machines. If you firewall > REJECTs these ports, remove those lines. > > On the NFS server side, add this line to /etc/sysconfig/nfs: > MOUNTD_PORT=4002 > > Restart nfs and iptables, and verify that it works. Also, update the > nfs-utils on both machines using up2date. > > Forrest > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > I agree that this sounds like a firewall issue. One other thing (that you may have done but didn't mention) make sure you run 'exportfs -a' on the server side. -- Charlie Heselton Network Security Engineer
