[SunHELP] solaris telnet/ftp connection problems

[Mahantesh]

> share  -F nfs  -o ro    /opt/temp
> 
> i shared the directory and after using the share from another machine, I
> deleted the directory but forgot to remove the share command entry from the
> /etc/dfs/dfstab file and on top of that I needed to reboot the system for
> some other reason.  After rebooting, this did something which caused the
> machine to not accept any connections. The machine respond to pings as alive
> but would not allow any telnet, ftp or x-term connections!!!!  It simply
> says connection refused!
> 
> I am in a fix, how to solve this problem? I am guessing it is happening
> because at the boot time, the nfs server starts and hangs as it doesnot find
> the directory for sharing.... it doesnot time out perhaps.

Have you tried removing that share from dfstab and reboot again!

Such a solution helped me once. It *may* help you also.


Cheers.
Mahantesh.