NFS client not connecting

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Ok, so I’ve worked through my firewall woes (thanks everyone for that) but still have issues connecting to my NFS exports on my home server.

  • with Fedora I was able to see the NFS shares in Discover’s Network section, and could mount them.
  • with TW they don’t show up in Discover. (I can see and connect to the SMB shares from the same server, though.)
  • If I use:
sudo showmount -e 192.168.100.250

I get

Export list for 192.168.100.250:
/export       192.168.100.0/24
/export/Vault 192.168.100.0/24

so it is exporting and visible.

  • I installed yast2-nfs-client to set things up graphically, the “Add → Choose” button gives me the following:
    image
    but I have allowed nfs, nfs3, rpc-bind, and mountd through the firewall, and have even tried with the firewall disabled - same result.
  • If I enter the IP address directly in “Add” I can click “Select” and get a list of exports to mount, but all of them are empty when mounted.
  • And if I go into the NFS Settings in YaST it shows the following error, whether or not the firewall is active:
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I must say, I’m out of my depth with the networking on OpenSUSE. Any help would be appreciated.

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You may have already read thru this, but just in case, see if it helps … it’s for Leap 15.5, but that’s okay

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I did see that article, and had gone through the YaST section of client setup. I’ve got it all set up how it says afaik.

I’ll see if I can go through some of the troubleshooting steps, maybe?

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Right, so I went through the setup again and this time (after turning off NFSv4, which I’m sure I’d already tried) it worked!

So looks like I’m good now. Thanks!

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You have allowed them on NFS server or NFS client?

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Strange – here on a Leap 15.5 client mounting a QNAP NAS box (NFS Server) within a private LAN, NFS v4 is behaving as expected – with IPv6:

NAS-Bureau-001.fritz.box:/NFS on /mnt/NAS-Bureau-001/NFS type nfs4 (rw,relatime,vers=4.2,rsize=131072,wsize=131072,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp6,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=2001:xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx,local_lock=none,addr=2001:xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx)

  • But, I’m on a private LAN behind a DSL Router which has a Firewall in addition to, the Firewall at my ISP – therefore no Firewall in use within the private LAN …
    Your mileage may vary …