RPC: Timed out

[Alan Curtis]

On Mar 29, 2005, at 9:20 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> 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?
>>

192.168.1.101 works, 192.168.1.102 does not.

Both firewalls are off (for now for purposes of diagnosis).

I think the key is something to do with why

$ showmount -e localhost

on the FreeBSD box sometimes works and sometimes does not.

Alan