Comment 19 for bug 848823

This is affecting me as well. It started when I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10.

I am identifying machines with IPs, not DNS. I set it up as per this tutorial:

https://mostlylinux.wordpress.com/network/nfshowto/

These instructions work fine for 10.04, 10.10, and 11.04. (However, the commands it describes for restarting services no longer apply in 10.10 and later; my workaround has been to simply reboot the machine instead, and that works fine).

I still have machines running those older versions, and they still talk to each other, but the one running 11.10 is incommunicado.

I did get the error message Tim mentioned about "/etc/exports.d: No such file or directory", but I simply created an empty directory at /etc/exports.d and that message no longer appears. But NFS still doesn't work.

I have tried the workaround Joseph Brown describes but that doesn't seem to help.

I would like to try the workaround where one uses /etc/network/interfaces instead of network-manager, but I have no idea how to do that. If someone could spell that out, at the user-friendliness level of the tutorial I mentioned above, that would be great.

BTW, I know at least two other people who are using NFS on 10.04 LTS, using basically the same setup I have (from that same tutorial), and who probably would be upgrading to the upcoming LTS if they hadn't already been warned about NFS being borked. I wonder how many other LTS users are about to get a nasty surprise.