Re: NFS problem -- SOLVED!
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Alex Samad put me on the right track to the solution. See comments in
line below.
<snip>
>> Other factors which may have a bearing on the situation: the BDS
>> computer is a P4; whereas the SOL is a dual core on a Foxconn
>> motherboard. Several other things do not work properly in SOL, such as
>> mounting and unmounting CF cards; so I wonder if there is something
>> wrong with the Foxconn BIOS. There has been some noise on line recently
>> about Foxconn's unfriendliness to Linux; for on Foxconn board model (not
>> mine) somebody disected the BIOS and found out why. When he raised the
>> issue with Foxconn they were upset at being found out but did not care
>> whether Linux worked with Foxconn boards or not. Caveat emptor.
>
> I would be rather supprised if a boggy bios stopped nfs mounting, as long
> as ping and other ip was working okay.
Yes, true in this case, but I think I still have issues respecting this
board and its BIOS -- subject for a separate thread perhaps.
<snip again to the part of Alex's post which put me on the right track.>
> Also have a look from each server to the other server with showmounts -e
> <servername>
I did not know about this command, which by the way is "showmount", so I
read its man page. Running "showmount -e SOL" on BDS returned the
directories exported from BDS, not those exported from SOL -- most
peculiar. I then got the bright idea to run "showmount -e
192.168.0.114", 114 being the IP address of the SOL box. This time the
command returned the directories exported from SOL. So what it going on?
By running ifconfig in both boxes I verified their IP addresses. I
checked the /etc/hosts file in both to verify that the right hostnames
were assigned to the right IP addresses. They were.
I paid particular attention to the BDS:/etc/hosts file, because I
assumed that the problem must reside there. Finally I noticed that the
local loopback alias was SOL, not BDS. The box now called BDS used to
be called SOL. When I changed the name I changed the name assigned to
the IP address of the new BDS (old SOL) but had neglected to change the
loopback alias. So I changed it, and BDS can now access the directories
exported from SOL.
I don't fully understand the loopback, but the fact that I had the
loopback alias wrong obviously explains why other things had not worked,
such as accessing html files from a browser using the alias rather than
"localhost".
Thanks to Thomas P. and Alex S. for their help.
Regards,
Ken Heard
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