On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 13:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 26 April 2008 11:16, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 26 April 2008 10:49, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > This morning my laptop could not connect to the server by its fstab > > > mounts. I restarted nfs and restarted the network on the server, all > > > without making any difference. Restarting the network brought > > > > > > Bringing up interface borg2: RTNETLINK answers: File exists > > > Error adding address 192.168.0.40 for eth0. > > > > > > but ifconfig shows the correct address for eth0. > > > > > > What else should I look for? > > > > I presume these lines are relevant - > > > > Apr 26 11:11:52 borg2 automount[2547]: create_udp_client: hostname lookup > > failed: No such process > > Apr 26 11:11:52 borg2 automount[2547]: create_tcp_client: hostname lookup > > failed: No such process > > Apr 26 11:11:52 borg2 automount[2547]: lookup_mount: exports lookup failed > > for .directory > > > > What is the cause of this? Thanks > > > This is a firewall issue. If I turn off the firewall everything works. NFS > and SMB are marked as trusted services, but it seems that is not enough. > Which ports need to be opened to use these services? I googled and followed > that advice, which didn't work, so now I have to ask here. ---- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-March/msg02366.html Craig