access denied by Kubuntu nfs server

**jim-anderson** · October 29th, 2019

@

SeijiSensei

I have been trying to mount with root privilege, but no luck with that

**jim-anderson** · October 29th, 2019

@TheFU

I tried:

sudo mount -t nfs -o vers=3 IPAddr:/mnt/backup /mnt/backup

and I get the error message:

mount.nfs: Connection timed out

note that I then pinged the server to verify that I do have a connect with the server and the result was positive, i.e. the connection is good.

**SeijiSensei** · October 29th, 2019

Try adding "-v" to the options to mount to get more debugging information.

What do you see in /var/log/syslog on the server side?

Are you sure you need to use "-o vers=3"? The version should be auto-negotiated.

**TheFu** · October 29th, 2019

Did you ever disable tcp-wrappers?

**jim-anderson** · October 29th, 2019

@ TheFU

"object storage" probably isn't what you think it is. Stick with a file system.

From what I have read about "object storage", it is an excellent idea and I would like to move toward it. I have many large compressed files that I store for backup and which I hopefully will never have to use. It does make sense to use object storage then, I think. Do you agree?