Re: mounting nfs

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:34:46AM +0000, John Haxby wrote:
> kent emia wrote:
> 
> >mount 10.x.x.x:/image/rh9 /mnt/cdrom
> >or
> >mount ourLocalServer:/image/rh9 /mnt/cdrom
> >
> >returns an error like: 'mount: RPC: Timed out'
> > 
> >
> Do you have the nfs daemon(s) running on the server?
> 
> However, given this error message it seems rather more likely that you 
> have a firewall configured which isn't letting NFS traffic through.    
> Try "/sbin/service iptables stop" on the server and if the NFS mount 
> works then you can worry about what to do to allow NFS through the firewall.
> 
> jch
Another question is the directory exported from the server.
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