Another try at NFS mount.

[Daniel Carrera]

Hello,

I re-installed Edubuntu. This is a perfectly standard install except 
that the IP range is 192.168.17.x. Once again, I can't mount over NFS 
(so the clients won't boot).

First I made sure that the client and server can talk. They can.

Then I made sure that the NFS server is running. It is:

/etc/init.d/portmap start
/etc/init.d/nfs-common start
/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start

This is the command on the client:

sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.17.1:/opt/ltsp  mydir

This is the error on the client:

mount: RPC: Timed out

This is what the server shows on /etc/log/daemon.log:

mountd: authenticated mount request from 192.168.17.240:740 for 
/opt/ltsp (/opt/ltsp)

I checked /etc/exports and it's fine. Indeed, if I try to mount a 
different directory (one that is not supposed to be mountable) I get a 
different result (daemon.log says "refused mount...").

So, NFS is running, it hears the client, it reads /etc/exports, and it 
authenticates the mount request. Then why is it not working?

Can anyone guess that the problem might be? I really don't know what 
else to try. Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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