NFS - mount: RPC: Timed out - why ?

[Jan Sladky]

Hi all,
I'm trying to connect from Linux to HP-UX 11.0 via nfs, but I'm getting following msg:

# mount 10.32.113.231:/kotel /mnt/dakar/
mount: RPC: Timed out

on hp-ux is in /etc/exports:
/kotel -access=10.32.113.121

all daemons - rpcbind,mountd, nfsd is running,
and IPs are ok, hosts.deny, hosts.allow doesn't exists

where can be problem ?

thanks Jan

[Mark Grant]

This sounds more like a networking/firewalling kind of thing than an specific NFS config problem. When you say that the IP's are OK do you mean that both machines can "nslookup/dig" the other and that they can both ping each other?

Is there a firewall in between?

[T G Manikandan]

Make sure you use NFS version 3.By default linux used nfs v3.

check what version is running on hpux

#rpcinfo |grep -i nfs

[SAHA]

Hi,

Check this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=140804

Thanks

[Jan Sladky]

firewall is not, I can ping between each other.
nfs version on hp-ux is 2 and 3
on Linux 2.8.6

[jose_123]

Try putting the nfs-client machine in the /etc/hosts file of your nfs-server machine.
I know this sounds silly, but it worked for me.
(I had ping ok, and no firewall, and every daemon running properly. I got the rpc timed out till I put my client machine in the /etc/hosts file of my server machine.
Hope it works

[Jan Sladky]

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