NFS failure

[Damian Menscher]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Jeff Elkins wrote:

> I'm getting failure messages on my nfs mounts i.e. :
>
> mount to NFS server 'music.elkins' failed: server is down.
>
> nsfd appears to be running and I didn't see anything suspicious in the logs.
> The servers are up and running and have other clients connected.

You didn't mention what steps you took to debug it:

Can you ping the server?
What is the output of rpcinfo -p servername?
Does the server have access restrictions (firewall, TCP Wrappers, etc)?

Damian Menscher
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