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Re: [LUG] Mac Address problem

 

> Hi every one,
>
>       I have a dilemma which I hope some of  you may be able to shed some
> light on.
>
> My experimental machine (cobbled together from many failed PCs over the
> years) had a very stable setup of Fedora C6. I had a Motherboard failure
> and as usual just took out both hard disks, Put them in a Similar PC and
> reboot!  this as always works to some degree with some tweaking here and
> there.  The problem is I have a Server PC (been running now for 5 years
> Fc4) which exports Filesystems, My rescued PC obviously has the same
> name as before, the same Ip address but a new MAC address. So my NFS
> mounts now are failing with permission Denied!  I have deleted
> my /etc/hosts and /etc/fstab on the server and recreated them to no
> avail. I have an /etc/hosts.allow file also, but I feel somewhere the
> MAC address must be linked to the ip or host name does any one know
> where this is?
> Thanks in anticipation
>

I have never come across a MAC address change causing this issue.. user
and host filtering maybe... perhaps IP address ??

Static / DHCP / Other ?


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