NFS: permission denied. Help?

[Amadeus W.M.]

>> 
> OK. Tried mount the NFS from the workstation itself and it failed. NFS
> seems to be broken :(
> 

The obvious conclusion, isn't it? Reboot...


Seriously now, nfs (+autofs) is working beautifully here. Try some things:

1) Turn off firewalls on both machines, so that nothing gets in the way:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables stop

2) Check that nfs is actually running on the server machine:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs status


3) On the client, run 

rpcinfo -p server 

You should see nfs running on 2049 (tcp and udp), portmapper on 111 (tcp 
and udp), status, nlockmgr, rquotad, and mountd on various ports. 

4) Also on the client, 

showmount -e server

You should see the partitions exported by the server. 


5) Look at /etc/exports on the nfs server. The exported partitions should 
have read permissions. 

Then let us know.