[nzlug] nfs share not available to kubuntu clients

[Simon Bridge]

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 20:13 +1300, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Simon Bridge wrote:
> > This one is confusing me...
> > 
> > There is an NFS server set up on an FC5 box.
> > There are four clients, two of which are running Kubuntu (Dapper and
> > Edgy), one mac and one WinXP. The mac and the xp can access the shares
> > fine, suggesting that the server is working. The Kubuntu boxes get
> > errors. 
> Is mountd running on the FC5 server?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cliff

No flaming wonder I was confused - it seems that the nfs service wasn't
starting on bootup. I didn't check - because some machines could mount
shares... but this was an illusion: the "shares" were just empty file
handles (or whatever they're called)... trying to open a file showed the
difference.

Lesson: check assumptions.