[CentOS] NFS Exporting / not working ???

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:35 -0500, Michael W Cocke wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:37:55 -0700, you wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 18:30 -0500, Michael W Cocke wrote:
> >> I'm fairly certain I'm not losing my mind, but....
> >> 
> >> I'm a very recent convert from fedora 7 to Centos 5.  I had the /
> >> filesystem exported and it worked fine.  Installed Centos, dropped the
> >> very same exports file I was using successfully into /etc, restarted
> >> nfs, and it won't allow anyone to access.  If you mount it from a
> >> different system, the mount succeeds, but no files or directories show
> >> up and the ls just sort of dies a slow death.
> >> 
> >> I managed to get it to work with samba, but nfs just won't happen.
> >> What am I missing?
> >----
> >start here...
> >
> >http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/ch-nfs.html
> >
> >Craig
> 
> I appreciate the thought, but I was hoping for a hint why something
> that's worked perfectly thru 4 distros and 7 years doesn't work on
> CentOS...
> 
> Never mind - I've been hacking this thing for almost a week and that's
> about as long as I have to waste.  Back to a distro that worked
> previously.
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just a thought that occurs to me...things have really changed with NFS
and many of those changes are covered in the documentation.

I would suppose that if you can't be bothered to go through the current
documentation, why should any of us bother trying to help you solve your
issues?

Craig