[CentOS] NFS insanity

Sun Apr 24 14:22:47 UTC 2005
Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com>

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?

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 Collins
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