FC6 client fails to NFS mount from Solaris 8 server

[Styma, Robert E (Robert)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Ian Chapman
> Sent:	Mon 10/30/2006 12:56 PM
> To:	For users of Fedora Core releases
> Cc:	
> Subject:	Re: FC6 client fails to NFS mount from Solaris 8 server
> 
> Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA) wrote:
> > Hi -
> >  
> > Long time Linux user, just upgraded from FC5 to FC6 and now 
> can longer mount drives from my Solaris 8 (Sun Cluster 2.1) 
> server.  I can sucessfully mount filesystems from RedHat 
> Enterprise Linux 4ES (Update 4) servers.
> >  
> > 1) SELinux and IPtables are both disabled.
> > 2) I can "ping" and "telnet" to the Solaris server, and 
> "showmount -e" lists all the exported filesystems
> > 3) tcpdump shows network traffic between the client and server
> > 4) mount -t nfs server:/path /mnt commands time out with 
> "Server not responding" messages
> >  
> > Any ideas?
> 
To get my linux box to mount from some other nodes
I had to add the "insecure" option to the /etc/exports
entry.

/home                    *.my.domain.com(rw,sync,insecure) 

I cannot remember whether the Solaris 8 boxes were one of
the ones which required this parameter.  The parm allows
the use of high numbered ports in the connection.  Note
that you have to make sure the NFS version issues are dealt
with as mentioned in earlier posts.

Bob Styma