Configuring NFS server on F8 not working

[Richard England]

Anoop Chandran wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 19, 2007 12:55 PM, Richard England <rlengland at verizon.net 
> <mailto:rlengland at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>     I have a F7 (didius) and a F8 (poirot) machine that I am trying to
>     "cross mount" directories on.
>
>     I can mount F7 directories on the F8 machine using   mount -t nfs
>     didius:/home/foobar /mnt/foobar
>
>     But when I try the opposite, mounting the F8 directory on F7  
>     mount -t
>     nfs poirot:/home/rhombux /mnt/rhombux   it fails with the message
>
>        "mount: mount to NFS server 'poirot' failed: System Error: No
>     route
>     to host."
>
>     I have tried with SELINUX and the firewall both disabled but that
>     seems
>     to have no effect.  The set up on each machine seems to be the same.
>     I've set up /etc/exports on each machine
>
>     On the F7 machine (didius)
>     /home/foobar            poirot(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
>
>     On the F8 machine (poirot)
>     /home/rhombux        didius(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
>
>     exportfs -a returns no errors.  NFS seems to be enabled
>
>     [root at didius rengland]# /sbin/service nfs status
>     rpc.mountd (pid 2464) is running...
>     nfsd (pid 2461 2460 2459 2458 2457 2456 2455 2454) is running...
>     rpc.rquotad (pid 2446) is running...
>
>
>     [root at poirot rengland]# /sbin/service nfs status
>     rpc.mountd (pid 1990) is running...
>     nfsd (pid 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980) is running...
>     rpc.rquotad (pid 1972) is running...
>
>     I can ping each machine from the other and I can use ssh to access
>     each
>     of the machines from the other.
>
>     Can anyone point me at some further diagnostics I can look at or
>     perhaps
>     give me some hints about other things I can try?  I had this working
>     when both machines were F7.  I'm beginning to suspect and F8 issue
>     but
>     I'm at the end of my ideas.
>
>
> Does `showmount` command list any exported mount points on FC8 server?
>
> didius$ showmount -e poirot
>
>
>     I'm going to be away from the machine for a while but this is
>     driving me
>     further nuts and I had to ask.
>
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     ~~Richard
>
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[root at didius rengland]# /usr/sbin/showmount -e poirot
[root at didius rengland]#