On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 06:25:55PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to set up NFS between two potato boxes running a custom > 2.4.1 kernel (Can't change easily neither potato nor this kernel). In > one of the exported directories I need file locking, but get lots of: > > Feb 18 14:01:17 kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 192.168.1.1 > Feb 18 14:01:17 kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 192.168.1.1 > > on the client machine. Probably I'm doing something stupid, but I > checked the configuration, searched manuals and the web, and can't get > wiser. I also checked that statd and lockd are running (they are on > both machines), I tried with kernel NFS and user space server and I > installed nfs-utils-0.2.1 as suggested somewhere. I'd appreciated any > hint.
nfs-utils 0.2 quietly started supporting tcpwrappers in statd, so if you have a strict host.deny (say deny everything) then statd will refuse connections from everyone. try adding: statd: 192.168.1.1 and such to the proper machines. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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