NFS over TCP not available from server ip (Gavin McCullagh)

[Joseph Ollis]

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>    1. Re: NFS over TCP not available from server ip (Gavin McCullagh)
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> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:52:50 +0100
> From: Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: NFS over TCP not available from server ip
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> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Joseph Ollis wrote:
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>> I have a fresh install of 7.04 up and running. The problem is that the
>> clients are not booting. I get the following error "NFS over TCP not
>> available from 192.168.0.254" right after the /scripts/nfs-premoutn is done.
>> I have checked and can ping the client at this point so I don't think it is
>> the network. What is going on?
>>     
>
> You haven't installed a firewall of any sort on the server, have you?
> Anything else which might block access to TCP ports?
>
> The output of the command 
>
> 	rpcinfo -p
>
> on the server should tell us whether nfs is available over TCP.
>
> By any chance, are there two Ethernet cards in the thin client (perhaps one
> on-baord and one pci)?  This can cause confusion where the PXE boot happens
> on the first card, but then the other gets configured but is not plugged
> in.  The usual answer is to remove (or disable in the BIOS) the other card.
>
> Gavin
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Gavin,
There is no firewall. The command rpcinfo -p does not have any reference 
to nfs. What do I do next?
JO