On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/07/28 06:08 (GMT-0400) Robert P. J. Day apparently typed: > > > just yesterday, i was demonstrating NFS to a class of people > > running F7 on their laptops, and i set up a simple NFS export on > > one system, and asked everyone else to run "showmount -e" against > > that server. > > > only one system in the class got output from showmount, although > > everyone could ping the server properly. i found this just a bit > > odd, and spent a few minutes trying to figure out what was > > happening, to no avail. > > I ran into this maybe a day or two ago. One of the systems was a > fresh install, and its hosts.allow and hosts.deny were both > functionally empty. After putting my usual portmap entries in them > and restarting nfs the problem went away. hmmmm ... i never even looked at those files, but that still wouldn't explain why *one* person had correct output while all the rest didn't, since none of them were messing with that file. how curious. but they were all fresh 64-bit installs. i guess i'll just pay closer attention next time to see what the problem might have been. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
