client not failed to mount nfs mount ...

[K.C. Chan]

All,
I am getting this error when trying to mount an nfs mount:
mount to NFS server '192.168.240.56' failed: server is down.

I have check, portmap, nfs, and mount services. They are all running according to the rpcinfo.

Any idea? Thanks.

[K.C. Chan]

Tracing mount, I got:
write(2, "mount to NFS server \'192.168.240"..., 43mount to NFS server '192.168.240.56' failed) = 43
write(2, ": server is down.\n", 18: server is down.
) = 18


Any idea?

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

Try to mount your nfs-dir with "mount -o nfsvers=2 ..." option.

Regards,
Sergejs

[Chakravarthi]

Try accessing the server share directory from /net/, if this is also not working, then it is export related issue, try after restarting the nfs service.

[Jerome Henry]

Could you post your /etc/exports file?

BTW, aren't you blocked by your iptables ?

Jerome

[Nguyen Anh Tien]

Hi CHan
Check NFS server. It seem NFS server is down or Network connection is break.
try ping to server and nfs service
#ping '192.168.240.56'
if server is alive
#ps -ef|grep nfsd
HTH
tienna

[RAC_1]

Is server 192.168.240.56 up and running?? Can you ping/telnet/access it from client??

Anil

[Dave Falloon]

Is teh server running NFS over TCP and the client is connecting without the TCP mount option?

--Dave

[K.C. Chan]

All,
It appears to be utils-linux package, which include the mount command. I have justed updated from util-linux-2.12a-16 to util-linux-2.12a-21. Apparently the 21 is not mounting exports from a linux server (rh7.2). But mounts from other fc3 to fc3 is working, as far as I know. What I did to fix it is cp over mount from another fc3 that had the orignal mount cmd. This works now. I wonder if this is a bug or a security featurer which I am not aware of? Any idea why?