mount to NFS server failed

[Damian Menscher]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, sly wrote:
> M. Lewis wrote:
>> sly wrote:
>> 
>>> on the stkserver i shared with nfs the folder /mnt/stuff
>>> i edit the exports file:
>>> 
>>> cat /etc/exports
>>> /mnt/stuff/              222.169.100.0/24(rw,sync,all_squash)
>>> exportfs -a

If you had this filesystem exported previously, you should do an 
exportfs -ua before the exportfs -a.

> Jul 17 17:30:51 stkserver portmap[2894]: connect from 222.169.100.101 to 
> getport(nfs): request from unauthorized host
>
> on the server i had this:
>
> # cat /etc/hosts.allow
> portmap: 222.168.100. : 127.

What's with the "127." ?  Try this:

portmap: 222.168.100. : ALLOW

>> I assume you restarted NFS after making the changes?
>
> did it! every time!

Totally unnecessary.

Damian Menscher
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