On Sunday 08 April 2007, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Apr 9 15:46:47 joe mountd[17301]: refused mount request from > 218.193.55.201 for /home (/): not exported Apr 9 15:46:57 joe > mountd[17301]: can't get hostname of 218.193.55.201 > > This is the first time I see mount failed because reverse DNS lookup > failed. My dumb questions are: > > 1. If reverse lookup had been a must, why I hadn't have this problem > with Linux clients? > 2. Can I turn off reverse lookup on the DNS server? It's impossible > for me to set up reverse lookup because client is not in the > network managed by me and I don't see how reverse lookup offered > better security: because I only export read-only shares!
Looks to me like windows was trying to mount /home instead of '/home/packman' and that is what it is complaining about. Did you try to add 218.193.55.201 to hosts file? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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