NFS problem

[Robert C Paulsen Jr]

On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 21:15, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Is there something more to setting up an NFS share than what was in the
> Red Hat 9 Customization Guide?  My server PC (bullet) has a small hard
> drive (2GB) and only has enough room for the necessary server files, so
> I wanted to export my main PC's (baby) root directory read-only to
> bullet and mount it there, but every time I try I get this error:
> 
> [root at localhost root]# mount baby.espersunited.com:/ /usr/nfs
> mount: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused
> 

On the server side ...

Be sure the portmap service is running (off by default in RH 9, I
believe).

It /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are not completely empty, try
emptying them out to see if that allows connection.