On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Mark Mitchell <mark.russel.mitchell at gmail.com> wrote: > Debian Etch, brand new install. All I've done to it since out of the > box state is change the IP to static, and add a drive. > > Every time I start '/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server', I get 'nfsd: > peername failed (err 107)'. > > Googling this error doesn't bring up anything useful. > With some help from #debian on irc.debian.org, I figured it out. The problem was that I had a client on the network still trying to connect to the original share on this machine. Once I re-setup the shares on the server, and remounted the client's shares, everything was fine.