Problems exporting partitions via NFS

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 11:10 -0700, don fisher wrote:
> 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:-)

Just use system-config-firewall. It's pretty simple.

poc