[PLUG] NFS mount glitch

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Mon Jan 24 20:26:26 UTC 2005


Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

>    On host 'tux' (I was not inventive that day) I export /usr2, /usr3, and
> /usr4; all are owned by root.users and have permissions 777.
> 
>    On host 'salmo' I try to mount them based on the entries in /etc/fstab:
> 
> tux:/usr2        /mnt/usr2        nfs     rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
> tux:/usr3        /mnt/usr3        nfs     rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
> tux:/usr4        /mnt/usr4        nfs     rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
> 
>    When I -- as root -- try to mount them I'm getting a permissions error:
> 
> [root at salmo ~]# mount /mnt/usr2
> mount: tux:/usr2 failed, reason given by server: Permission denied
> 
>    I'm not seeing what permission is incorrect. A better pair of eyes would
> be helpful.
> 

What does tux's /etc/exports contain, and did you remember to run exportfs?

galen




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