Ken,

I assume you poked the proper holes in the firewall assuming the firewall 
is on.  

-Connie Sieh

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, 
Ken Teh wrote:

> I'm having problems getting NFS to work on SL 4.1.  I've followed the
> recipes in the RedHat docs and those I found on the web, but no cigar!
> 
> I've left rpc.idmapd running with the Domain parameter set to our DNS domain
> on both the server and client side.  On the server side, I've turned off
> rpc.gssd and rpc.svcgssd.  The exports file has the line
> 
> /h *.phy.anl.gov(rw,sync,fsid=0,insecure,no_subtree_check)
> 
> On the client side, the nfslock service is running.  I mount the system so
> 
> mount -rvt nfs server.phy.anl.gov:/h /mnt
> 
> The client says:
> mount: RPC: Authentication error; why = Failed (unspecified error)
> 
> The server log says:
> ... mountd: request from unauthorized host
> 
> I specify the client explicitly in /etc/hosts.allow
> portmap: .phy.anl.gov
> rpc.mountd: <client-ip>
> 
> Next, I try
> 
> mount -rvt nfs4 server.phy.anl.gov:/h /mnt
> 
> The client says:
> mount: special device server.phy.anl.gov:/h does not exist
> 
> Or, it hangs.  The server is silent.  Turning on rpc.gssd and rpc.svcgssd
> makes no difference.
> 
> I'm baffled.  Must be something awfully simple that I've overlooked.  Can
> someone shed some light?
> 
> Ken
>