the problem on my pc: redhat 8, portmapper is up, nfs is up and running /etc/exports has the directory i wanna export showmount -e [localhost ip] shows the above directories.
for good measure: 1 ipchains disabled 2 iptables disabled (!) 3 network-security disabled (lokkit) 4) ip6tables disabled double-checked everything with the chkconfig -L commands, all the related nfs daemons are up. the remote client is pinging fine. *even then* i can't get the remote client (my trusty ol' PII) to mount the exported directory to a local directory. the syntax for mount is correct, double-checked that too. the remote client is h7.3, where i have disabled lokkit, disabled ipchains, iptables, et al. all this obviously on an isolated ethernet lan. have also tried vice-versa, trying to get the remote client to become a server and log into this pc. either ways, the error is: 'port mapper failure - RPC: Timed Out' another time 'mount clntudp_create: RPC: Port mapper timed out' or 'failure -RPC: Timed Out' have even done nfs restarts. tried this between two redhat8 installations as well. what the heck could be wrong? yes, i've even done lsmod -r commands. done nmap to check the sunrpc port is open. read through setting up ipchains and iptables. decided iptables the way to go (once i get the nfs working with no firewalls whatsoever. but that's the next phase). also ensured firestarter is off. the only thing that i suspect is that despite all these things off, the lsmod |grep ip command shows a lot of iptable thingies, some autoclean, some unused, one or two with some sequences of commands. googling till i was yoodling. please help. how do i get nfs to work and share directories? TIA. ?? LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
