[CentOS] NFS insanity

[Plant, Dean]

Mark Weaver wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
>> On 4/24/05, Mark Weaver <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I've got some insanity with mounting an NFS share that before
>>> reloading my workstation afresh worked perfectly, but now refuses
>>> to mount. 
>>> 
>>> Actually there are two servers with shares mounted.
>>> (1) Mandrake 10.0 file server - two shares - mount perfectly
>>> (2) Fedora Core 3 - one share - can't mount to save my life!
>>> 
>>> My workstation is CentOS 4. I reloaded it to get rid of the FC3
>>> installation at the front of the main drive and recover some space
>>> on the second drive moving CentOS to the main drive. Everything
>>> else works wonderfully as advertised. The following is the only
>>> feedback I'm getting when attempting to mount the share from the
>>> FC3 server. (the shares on the file server mount perfectly)
>>> 
>>> SERVER:
>>> Apr 24 09:43:41 mail rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
>>> 192.168.0.252:921 for /var/www (/var/www)
>>> 
>>> CLIENT:
>>> Mounting NFS filesystems:  mount: 192.168.0.4:/var/www failed,
>>> reason given by server: Permission denied
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> What does your fstab entry for the share look like?
>> 
> 
> sorry about that... I knew I'd forget something.
> 
> the fstab entry on the client machine appears thusly:
> 192.168.0.4:/var/www /mnt/www nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,auto,hard 0 0
> 
> The exports file on the server appears as this:
> /var/www	192.168.0.252(rw)
> 
> (the IP of the client machine is 192.168.0.252)

Have you tried to mount another test share on the server with no
options/IP restrictions?

Dean.