Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John wrote:
> Ken Schneider wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 14:10, John wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > I still don't seem to be able to get my computer connecting, as an 
> > > NFS client, to itself, my NFS server.
> > >   
> >
> >
> > Huh! And why would you want to nfs mount an nfs share from the machine
> > to itself. This seems rather lame to me. And maybe also to the
> > programmers that wrote nfs which is why it doesn't work. Even on M$ this
> > would be a rather lame thing to do.

> Lame or not, it offers a way to verify that NFS is working - if it can't 
> see itself, how can it expect other computers to see it?
The showmount command will show what's being exported.