RPC: Timed out

[Lowell Gilbert]

Alan Curtis <acurtis at ieee.org> writes:

> I am trying to find out why I can mount my FreeBSD disk as an NFS
> share on one of my Macs but not the other.
> 
> When I ran
> 
> 
> $ showmount -e
> 
> on my FreeBSD machine, I got the expected response
> 
> Exports list on localhost:
> /usr                               192.168.1.101 192.168.1.102
> 
> which includes both the Macs. But when I ran it on my Mac
> 
> $ showmount -e 192.168.1.100
> 
> I got this error
> 
> RPC: Timed out: Can't do Exports rpc
> 
> so I went back to the FreeBSD machine and tried again
> 
> $ showmount -e localhost
> 
> and now get the same error (almost)
> 
> RPC: Timed out
> showmount: can't do exports rpc
> 
> Any ideas what is wrong?

Which machine works, which doesn't, and are you sure there are no
firewalls involved?