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

[Jim McQuillan]

Joseph Ollis wrote:
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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
>> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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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.


sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server


Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org




>>
>> 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
>