On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:29:14PM +0100, Francois wrote: > Hi, > > I try to finish the install of F8 on my new laptop, and now I have a problem > with NFS. > I have created the right exports file under /etc > I have activated the NFS services as I used to do > I can ping from my laptop to my main computer. > I can't ping from my main computer to the laptop Sounds like a routing issue. On both computers, please run (as root): ifconfig route -n On each computer, see if you can resolve the host name of the other, e.g. on fred: host barney and on barney host fred and copy and paste the results into an email. > I've added the right entries in my /etc/fstab > Now when I run mount mymaincomputer:/home > I get : mount : mymaincomputer:/home failed, reason given by server : > permission denied. > > When I do the same with my old laptop, it works fine. > The old laptop and new one have the same IP, same hostname, etc... (of > course I run only once at a time ;-) ) That could also be your problem. NFS, ARP, and many other network services will cache data for quite a long time. Try assigning the new laptop a new, different IP address. > I've tried to disable the firewall, but it doesn't help. That is at best a short term solution. There have been discussions of ways of dealing with firewalls recently on this list. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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