Strangeness with automounter (amd)

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:51:03 -0700, Brian D. McGrew wrote:

> I use the automounter all over my network and for the most part life is
> good.  A host starts exporting a new file system and everyone sees it
> just fine.
> 
> Everyone except two stubborn workstations.  I've got two machines
> running FC3 that won't see new exports for any host without a reboot.
> I've stopped and restarted every service I can think of but to no avail.
> 
> Any ideas what else I might look at?
> 

1) firewall on the client and on the server. Temporarily turn these off,
to see if it helps.
2) /etc/hosts.allow/deny on the server: make sure the
clients can talk to the portmapper.