NFS problem

[Rich Krauter]

Just out of curiosity, do you have iptables running on the host? If so,
disable it <b>temporarily</b>  and see if it makes a difference. If so
then it means you need to poke some holes in iptables so nfs can get
through. 
Rich

On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 23:57, Robert Spangler wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> My systems
> 
> RedHat 9.0              Fedora (Laptop)
> Host                    Client
> 2 shares
> 
> In Fedora's fstab I have defined the shares of the host.  They are defined 
> with the ip address.  When I boot the Fedora machine it takes a long time for 
> the nfs mounts to mount.  After everything is up and running if I try to ls 
> the shares it takes a long time too, and some times I see the following:
> 
> nfs:  server x.x.x.x not responding, still trying
> nfs:  server x.x.x.x OK
> nfs:  server x.x.x.x not responding, still trying
> nfs:  server x.x.x.x OK
> 
> 
> and then the directory is listed.
> 
> No both machine I have the following services up and running:
> 
> nfs
> netfs
> nfslock
> portmap
> network
> 
> I have asked on #fedora and was told that it is most likely a DNS issue but 
> this i don't believe because the host lookup order is to first look in hosts 
> file which all machines are defined.
> 
> Does anyone know of any other place or places I need to look?
> 
> Thnx
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards
> Robert
> 
> Smile.....  It increases your face value.
> 
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