On 7/28/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > just yesterday, i was demonstrating NFS to a class of people running > F7 on their laptops, and i set up a simple NFS export on one system, > and asked everyone else to run "showmount -e" against that server. > > only one system in the class got output from showmount, although > everyone could ping the server properly. i found this just a bit > odd, and spent a few minutes trying to figure out what was happening, > to no avail. > > these were 64-bit F7 installs, and i didn't get a chance to see if a > 32-bit install would work any differently. so, is there some reason i > would have seen this behaviour? the showmounts didn't fail with error > messages, they just returned nothing (in most cases). thoughts? > > rday > > -- > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day > Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry > Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page > ======================================================================== > Greetings Robert, I have seen this result when the firewall is blocking the NFS ports. -- Virtually, Tom W
