NFS problem AGAIN -- it still does not work

[Stephen Thudium]

NFS now works!!

I found my mistake:  I needed to disable IPtables at the server.

Thanks, everyone for your help.

BTW, I would be willing to write a NFS HOWTO, if anyone can use that.

Steve

 
On Thursday, January 03, 2008, at 02:27PM, "Aaron Johnson" <ajohnson at terrasoftsolutions.com> wrote:
>Stephen Thudium wrote:
>> I'm still having problems with NFS, although different.
>>
>> As Patrice Bouchand suggested (Thanks Patrice!), my earlier problem appears to have been a kernel problem.  So, I ran "yum 'update" and got the latest kernel.
>>
>> However, now when I try to mount the client, I get the following error:
>>     mount: mount to NFS server '192.168.1.200' failed: System Error: No route to host.
>>   
>This implies that the system does not know how to even contact the other 
>machine, AKA can you ping the other machine from the the one you are 
>trying to connect from?
>
>Aaron
>> Any ideas?  
>>
>> Maybe my procedure (described below in earlier email) is wrong.  Is there a HOWTO that explains the correct way to setup a NFS server and client?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve 
>>
>>  
>> On Sunday, December 23, 2007, at 02:26PM, "Stephen Thudium" <sthudium at mac.com> wrote:
>>   
>>> I get the following error message when I try to mount an NFS directory on the client host.
>>>
>>> [root at localhost ~]# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.200:/home/backup /mnt/nfs
>>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.200:/home/backup,
>>>       missing codepage or other error
>>>       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>>       dmesg | tail  or so
>>>
>>> The above error message comes up immmediately so I think the problem is in the client and not the server.
>>>
>>> I have two Macs, both with YDL 5.0.2 installed.  The client is a '03 G4 Powerbook (192.168.1.201) and the server is a '03 iMac (192.168.1.200).
>>>
>>> The setup seemed simple enough.  On the server I added the following line to /etc/exports
>>> /home/backup      192.168.1.201(rw,sync)
>>>
>>> At the server I then started NFS with the following commands
>>> # service portmap start
>>> # service nfs start
>>> # service nfslock start
>>>
>>> At the client I then started NFS with the same commands and then tried the command I listed at top of this email.
>>>
>>> I know the client does talk to the server because I can establish ssh from the client to the server.
>>>
>>> Does aanyone have a recommended procedure for me to follow?  Is there a NFS HOWTO (for server and client) that I could use?  I read the NFS HOWTO on the TerraSoft website and that was totally inappropriate; it only mentioned a Solaris client.
>>>
>>>
>>>     
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