Hi, I'm going to recap and hopefully focus this discussion based on current results. Thanks to Richard, Walter, Ralph and Brett for your help so far.
I'm working from these two documents: http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=HOWTO_Share_Directories_via_NFS http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/server.html There are 4 machines on our home network that are involved in this problem: Dragonfly - Gentoo music server Flash - Gentoo workstation Godzilla - FC2 workstation Christmas - FC2 workstation Dragonfly used to be FC2. The /MusicLib directory could be mounted on all the other machines. Since converting Dragonfly to Gentoo we have not been able to mount it. As of this morning the setup on Dragonfly looks like this: # /etc/exports: NFS file systems being exported. See exports(5). #/MusicLib *(ro) /MusicLib 192.168.1.55(ro,sync,no_root_squash) 192.168.1.29(ro,sync,no_root_squash) 192.168.1.51(ro,sync,no_root_squash) The line commented out above was all that was required to allow MusicLib to be mounted when Dragonfly was running FC2. That hasn't worked under Gentoo, nor has the currently more complicated line shown above. Currently Dragonfly says it's exporting: dragonfly ~ # exportfs /MusicLib Dragonfly /MusicLib Flash /MusicLib Godzilla dragonfly ~ # Results when trying to mount from Flash (Gentoo): fstab has: dragonfly:/MusicLib /home/mark/MusicLib nfs noauto,user,ro,_netdev 0 0 flash ~ $ mount MusicLib/ mount: dragonfly:/MusicLib failed, reason given by server: No such file or directory flash ~ $ Results when trying to mount from Godzilla (FC2): fstab has: dragonfly:/MusicLib /mnt/MusicLib nfs noauto,user,ro,_netdev,proto=udp 0 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ mount /mnt/MusicLib/ mount to NFS server 'dragonfly' failed: server is down. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ Results when trying to mount /MusicLib on Dragonfly itself is identical to Flash. Both are Gentoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mount NFStest/ mount: dragonfly:/MusicLib failed, reason given by server: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ So the Gentoo machines are consistent. As an NFS client they both say MusicLib is not exported, but according to exportfs on Dragonfly it is. The FC2 machines says that the server is down. I've tried with both the proto=udp in and out. I hope this focuses the problem a bit better. Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
