On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 12:40 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote: > I am having one 2 debian pcs and 1 FC3 pc in my office.I want to share > some files from debian pcs so that users on FC3 can access it.I can > see the files by giving command > > showmount -e 192.168.1.56. > > But whenever i try to mount that share it gives error > > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.56:/ctn /ctn > > the /etc/exports file on one of the debian : > > > /home/agrover 192.168.1.55(rw,sync,no_wdelay,squash uids-0-99) > /ctn *(rw,async,no_root_squash) > /var/log 192.168.1.55(ro,all_squash) > /raju 192.168.1.55(rw,squash uids=0-99) > /home/mverma 192.168.1.55(rw,squash uids=0-99) > /home/rajat 192.168.1.55(rw,squash uids=0-99) > /home/raju 192.168.1.55(rw,squash uids=0-99) > > > > the error i get is > > mount to NFS server '192.168.1.56' failed: server is down.The nfs > ,portmap and rpc services are running on debain as i can see the > process id with grep command. Can the debian server mount the filesystem back to itself? # mkdir /mnt/tmp # mount -t nfs 192.168.1.56:/ctn /mnt/tmp That should establish whether the nfs server is working properly. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>