[PLUG] Stupid NFS question

[John Meissen]

johnxj at comcast.net said:
> To reiterate, the laptop (server) is 192.168.0.155 and the desktop (client) is
> 192.168.0.146. Here is the error message again from the desktop (two lines,
> wrapped):

> 	sudo mount -t nfs
> 		192.168.0.155:/media/jjj/Movies /media/jjj/Devil--Bonobo
> 	mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting
> 		192.168.0.155:/media/jjj/Movies

> And also from the desktop:

> 	showmount -e 192.168.0.155
> 	Export list for 192.168.0.155:
> 	/media/jjj/Movies 127.0.0.1,192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0

> I take the mount.nfs error message as indicating a permissions problem, and
> the second command as meaning that the desktop does at least see the share on
> the laptop. 

> Also, on the laptop I did 'sudo chmod 777 /media/jjj/Movies.' And on both
> computers I am jjj:jjj. Using the GUI I looked at the permissions for jjj:jjj
> and they are the same on both computers. On the desktop I also tried the mount
> command after doing sudo su to become root, but I still get the same error
> message.

> The error message certainly sounds like a permissions problem, but I don't
> know what else to do. I am wondering if the mount.nfs error is a generic
> message that the mount command gives regardless of what actually caused the
> failure to mount.

NFS version mismatch? What output do you get if you use "-v" with mount? Is 
there anything in any of the log files on either system?