Problems exporting partitions via NFS

[don fisher]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 20:56 -0700, don fisher wrote:
>> I have three systems, two Ubuntu and one F14. I am trying to move to 
>> F14. Currently I can mount any of the Ubuntu the systems on the three 
>> computers. But when I try to mount the file system exported from F14 I 
>> receive a message from NFS:
>>
>> mount.nfs: No route to host
>>
>> I can ping the F14 system, so the name resolution should be ok. I use 
>> the same /etc/exports file on all machines, so is is probably not the 
>> problem.
>>
>> Is there anything I need to set up with iptables, or PAM?
>>
>> I am working from the command line. Any advice appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
> 
> Have you adjusted your firewall (iptables) in F14 to allow NFS?
> 
> poc
> 
Thanks. I turned off iptables using system-config-services and was able 
to mount the system remotely. The addition of nsf4 in the fstab did no 
appear to be required.

Thanks again. Now I have to relearn how to edit iptables:-)
Don