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Re: potato 2.4.1 and NFS locking



On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 06:25:55PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm trying to set up NFS between two potato boxes running a custom
> 2.4.1 kernel (Can't change easily neither potato nor this kernel). In
> one of the exported directories I need file locking, but get lots of:
> 
> Feb 18 14:01:17 kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 192.168.1.1 
> Feb 18 14:01:17 kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 192.168.1.1
> 
> on the client machine. Probably I'm doing something stupid, but I
> checked the configuration, searched manuals and the web, and can't get
> wiser. I also checked that statd and lockd are running (they are on
> both machines), I tried with kernel NFS and user space server and I
> installed nfs-utils-0.2.1 as suggested somewhere. I'd appreciated any
> hint.

nfs-utils 0.2 quietly started supporting tcpwrappers in statd, so if
you have a strict host.deny (say deny everything) then statd will
refuse connections from everyone.  try adding:

statd: 192.168.1.1

and such to the proper machines.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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