NFS mount problem - can't get net id for host

[Rod Person]

I'm trying to setup a nfs share on my server. I'm trying to connect from
a laptop to that share. The laptops ip address is assigned via dhcp.

I try to connect to the share with the command
mount -v servername:/mountpoint /mnt

and get the error: nfs: can't get net id for host

/etc/exports

/data_drive/public  -alldirs

/etc/hosts.allow I have even added

portmap : ALL : allow

in attempt to mount the share, but I still get this error.

Any hints or tips?

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Re: NFS mount problem - can't get net id for host

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 08:22:53AM -0400, Rod Person wrote:
 I'm trying to setup a nfs share on my server. I'm trying to connect from
 a laptop to that share. The laptops ip address is assigned via dhcp.
 
 I try to connect to the share with the command
 mount -v servername:/mountpoint /mnt
 
 and get the error: nfs: can't get net id for host

This error occurs when mount_nfs(8) has attempted to look up your
server's hostname and resolve it into one or more IP numbers first via
inet_addr(3) and failing that then via gethostbyname(3), and still
hasn't managed to get an IP number.

Try putting the hostname and IP number of your server into /etc/hosts
on your client machine, or configure your client machine to use a DNS
machine that knows about your server.

Cheers,

Matthew


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