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.