NFS Mounts

Mark mark at harddata.com
Fri Apr 23 19:27:05 UTC 2004


On April 23, 2004 01:23 pm, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> Rob Freeman wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Weisenstein" <dan at tesoro.com>
> > To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 2:00 PM
> > Subject: NFS Mounts
> >
> >>I have two Linux systems - one Fedora and one SuSE. I'm attempting to
> >>mount a file system from one on the other (either way).
> >>
> >>I've placed the file system in /etc/exports and done an exportfs -a to
> >>populate xtab. nfsd and rpc.mountd are running. I've put ALL:ALL in
> >>/etc/hosts.allow. The host names are in each others hosts files.
> >>
> >>mount hostname:/home/shared /mnt/hostname
> >>
> >>always returns a permission denied. What am I missing?
> >>
> >>Thanks- Dan
> >
> > Just a guess, but does the user trying to mount this have rights to
> > /mnt/hostname?
>
> Also make sure portmapper is running.  Did you grant the NFS client
> rights to mount the NFS export on the server in /etc/exports?

One last thing did you HUP or restart nfsd? You need to make sure nfsd reloads 
the exports file.

regards,

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