[CentOS] NFS insanity

Mon Apr 25 10:22:17 UTC 2005
Mark Weaver <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com>

Plant, Dean wrote:
> 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.

yeah... there's something strange going on with the server because the 
share can't be mounted from any other machine either.

-- 
Mark
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