Re: [K12OSN] RPC times out

["David Trask" <dtrask vcs u52 k12 me us>]

Just sharing my own discovery.  If you are trying to NFS export from
another machine to the LTSP box....I found that I had to disable the
firewall....Once I did that it worked fine.

\andy well-nap k12 mo us writes:
>What can cause the RPC to time out when trying to mount an NFS share?
>
>I have a RH 7.1 install that should be exporting 2 directories.  It
>worked 
>for a while, but then the server was unplugged on me and now the share
>will 
>not work.  Second time this problem has popped up.  When I try to connect 
>from another machine I get
>
>'mount: RPC: Timed Out'.
>
>This isn't happening consistently either.  Sometimes it works and
>sometimes 
>it doesn't.  It appears that I can get exactly ONE mount to work each
>time 
>I restart NFS on the server.
>
>The results of my 'exportfs -v' are:
>
>[root math_terminal /etc]# exportfs -v
>/xterminals/root
>                 *(rw,async,wdelay,no_root_squash)
>/var/xterminals
>                 *(rw,async,wdelay,no_root_squash)
>
>Any suggestions at all will be appreciated.
>
>Andy
>
>Andy Hall, Technology Director
>Wellington-Napoleon R-9 School District
>Wellington, MO  64097
>(816)240-2621; fax (816)934-8649



David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask vcs u52 k12 me us
(207)923-3100