-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIkNLQlNlJzOkJmTcRAkyQAJ9XjDfyr+kSV74ksT6bNng2APu7zQCePnK2 d61lQ9w66qLgfN2CraL4Hzs= =UdRM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
