On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 18:30 +0530, G Rajesh wrote: > Dear All, > I am new to networking and I have just two system to connect. They are > connected to each other and ADSL modem through a network switch. I use > fedora core 4 at both systems. > 1. I assigned 192.168.1.10 to one system naming it primary.grajesh.in > and the another 192.168.1.20 as secondary.grajesh.in. This was done > using desktop>sytemsettings>network. Above seems fine. > 2. I added /home/rajesh/Documents to be exported using > desktop>sytemsettings>serversettings>nfs. Check your /etc/exports file to see if it was added. > 3. I have added the above addresses to /etc/hosts file and > /etc/hosts.allow file too. Seems fine. > 4. I have added 192.168.1.xx:/home/rajesh/Documents /net nfs rw 0 0 to > the /etc/fstab file also. Not sure on the above fstab line, especially the end. > But when I boot, I get the following error: > "mount to nfs server '192.168.1.xx' failed: server is down" Do you have the proper services running on the machines? Server 1 - service nfs restart 2 - service nfslock restart 3 - service portmap restart (maybe this one first) Workstation 1 - mkdir /net 2 - service portmap restart Then try remounting. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "It's only funny until someone gets hurt, then it's hilarious!"
