Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3419 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 08 April 2007, Zhang Weiwu wrote:

> Apr  9 15:46:47 joe mountd[17301]: refused mount request from
> 218.193.55.201 for /home (/): not exported Apr  9 15:46:57 joe
> mountd[17301]: can't get hostname of 218.193.55.201
>
> This is the first time I see mount failed because reverse DNS lookup
> failed. My dumb questions are:
>
>    1. If reverse lookup had been a must, why I hadn't have this problem
>       with Linux clients?
>    2. Can I turn off reverse lookup on the DNS server? It's impossible
>       for me to set up reverse lookup because client is not in the
>       network managed by me and I don't see how reverse lookup offered
>       better security: because I only export read-only shares!

Looks to me like windows was trying to mount  /home instead
of  '/home/packman' and that is what it is complaining about.

Did you try to add 218.193.55.201 to hosts file?

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John Andersen