Errors with NFS
I’m at the step where I need to verify portmap is working OK on the box I want to share.

IN the process of preparing a FC3 Linux box to share a directory out.

I get this error when I run Rpcinfo –p:
can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error- Connection denied

Researching articles on the web, I found out this could be because of some errors in hosts.allow/deny or my exports file.
I believe my syntax is correct & when I change it, I believe it exports OK, as I don’t get any errors (or anything else ) when I do this command:
Exportfs –r

When I run nfs restart all daemons start except portmap.
For that I get the following error:
RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno-5)

Then I tried exportfs –var
It seemed to work as it said:
“exporting *:/home/mark

Then running nfs restart does work
But I still get that error when running rpcinfo –p

And a portmapper failure error when running
Showmount -e

I’ve tried putting the FQH name & then the IP address for my share server in the exports file, that didn’t work so I took it out.

At one time I also changed my hosts.allow file to ALL: ALL

I’ve found out (correctly I hope) that even though I want portmap I need to have an entry in the hosts.deny file such as: portmap: ALL
But I’ve also tried it without this entry in here & it the hosts.allow file.

The box I’d like to share-out is 192.168.113.1
The box I’d like to connect to it is 192.168.113.2

I’ve included my hosts & exportfs files below.
Any information would be helpful.
I don’t know if this has anything to do with it, but my NIC doesn’t retain it’s values (ip/mask) info even though I put it in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file. But I do get IP by manually using the ifconfig command.
So I included that as well.

Thank you,

Mark

EXPORTS
#Exports file
/home/mark *(no_root_squash)

HOSTS.ALLOW
# hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are
# allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
# by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
#
ALL: 192.168.113.1
ALL: 192.168.113.2
portmap: 192.168.113.0/255.255.255.0


HOSTS.DENY
#
# hosts.deny This file describes the names of the hosts which are
# *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
# by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
#
# The portmap line is redundant, but it is left to remind you that
# the new secure portmap uses hosts.deny and hosts.allow. In articular
# you should know that NFS uses portmap!
ALL:ALL
portmap: ALL

IFCFG-ETH0
#This should be autoconfiguring my card, but it's not!
DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=192.168.113.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=ethernet

Start portmap service.

/sbin/service portmap start

Thanks guys, but I'm still getting it.

This what I’ve done:
When I start portmap I get green [OK]
But rpcinfo –p still gives same error.

I did this too:
Rebooted
/sbin/service portmap start
rpcinfo –p (still same error)
exportfs –var (looks like it goes OK)
nfs restart (goes OK)
rpcinfo –p (still same error)

And I noticed this, even though my exports file only has this in it:
/home/mark *(no_root_squash)
When I go to /var/lib/nfs & look in the etab file I see:
/home/mark *(ro,sync,wdelay,hide,nocrossmnt,secure,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,subtree_check,secure_locks,mapp ing=identity,anonuid=-2


Thanks,
Mark

Might your firewall be blocking even local connections?

looks like thats disabled...