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. ---- 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