[Sussex] Help with NFS

[David Chapman]

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 12:42, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:

> There should be some clues in the logs on the NFS server box in this
> case. You should look here first.

Mar  2 14:20:21 hydrogen rpc.mountd: mount request from unknown host 
192.168.0.72 for /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt (/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt)

> On the box that runs the NFS server: What is the contents of
> /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny ?
>
> Many (some? most?) distributions have "ALL: PARANOID" in /etc/hosts.deny
> - which effectively blocks any hosts where the reverse dns doesn't
> work...
>
> If this is the problem, man hosts_access(5) is your friend. But still
> check the logs first - I might be barking up the wrong tree here..
>
> Hope this helps