nfs server not responding

[John Guster]

on NFS client, rpcinfo -p nfsserver did not show nfs while on NFS server "nfsd 16" is there using ps -ef. Why the client can not see nfs? server and client can ping each other.
Thanks.

[Martin Hejtmanek · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Have you exported filesystems on NFS server?

On HP-UX 11.11:

Before export FS
bash-2.04# exportfs
nothing exported
bash-2.04#

Exporting FS
bash-2.04# exportfs /home
bash-2.04#

After export FS
bash-2.04# exportfs
/home
bash-2.04#

Note: Exported FS must be in /etc/exports

bash-2.04# cat /etc/exports | grep home
/home
bash-2.04#

Regards
Martin

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom John,

look at /etc/exports

its possible to set access restrictions by hostname or ip address.

its possible a firewall permits ping but not NFS.

Any number of causes can make thsi happen.

Lastly, or maybe firstly, check /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

SP

[John Guster]

Thanks both of you for your responses. It turns out that NFS client sending a string for NFS in certain format NFS server does not like. The NFS server is using GNOME. Solution is switching back to CDE from GNOME on NFS server side. Figuring out why and how GNOME acts like that is beyound my interest.

[John Guster]

closed.