On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 10:38 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 17:43 -0700, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > > I'm trying to set up an NFS file server on one of the boxes on my LAN > > and have gotten stuck. On the server, I used system-config-nfs to create > > the following /etc/exports file: > > > > /home/magnusg/music 192.168.1.11(rw,sync) 192.168.1.12(rw,sync) > > 192.168.1.13(rw,sync) > > > > to allow the other three boxes r/w access to the > > directory /home/magnusg/music on the server (192.168.1.14). > > > > Also on the server, I used system-config-services to start nfs and > > nfslock on run levels 3 and 5. Then I checked NFS4 on the firewall > > configuration widget system-config-firewall to open tcp and udp ports > > 2049. Then I rebooted the server. > > > > On one of the clients I then did (as root): > > > > mkdir /mnt/PuteF > > mount 192.168.1.14:/home/magnusg/music /mnt/PuteF > > > > and got the error message: > > mount: mount to NFS server '192.168.1.14' failed: System Error: No route > > to host > > > > I'm guessing I need to open more ports, but which ones and where? The > > four boxes are connected to a Linksys router. > > > No route to host sounds more like a connection problem. You can ssh between the machines? > -- ssh works fine. I've been googling this problem and found that other people have had it and it may be a serious bug. Could it be that NFS doesn't work in fedora and that everybody uses samba anyway?
