On 06/20/2010 06:38 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage was caught red-handed while writing:: > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 09:15 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 06/21/2010 09:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 17:58 -0700, JD wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Perhaps check the firewall on server and clients??? >>>> >>>> >>> JD, >>> Nope. That was the second thing I checked. No changes. >>> --Doc >>> >>> >>> >> I assume there were no errors logged anywhere.... But, have you tried >> mounting directly instead of via autofs to help rule out that as a factor? >> > Ed, > > Direct mounting was the problem in January. See the thread "Also having > NFSv4 problems" on this list Jan 03-04, 2010. autofs was the fix, and > manual mounts still don't work. > > Reviewing those posts, however, I discovered that the nfs service has > been disabled (w/chkconfig) on all F12 and F13 clients. How that > happened is a head-scratcher because nfs must be running on all local > nodes to gain yum access to fast repos on the server. > > --Doc > > Why would a client need to run the nfs daemon in order to connect to a server? Are the clients also exporting some directories to the server? If not, then there is no reason at all for the clients to be running the nfs daemon. At any rate, I thought you might wish to read http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ there are some very basic "to do" points for the server and client. Perhaps one or more of those points is missing in your clients. Cheers, JD -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines