[CentOS] Issue mounting /home area from NAS server

[Pat Haley]

Hi Mike,

I think v3 but I'm not sure (how do I check
this?).  At any rate, I tried your suggestion
both ways

[root at mseas etc]# mount -o vers=3 mseas-data:/home
mount.nfs: Unknown error 521

[root at mseas etc]# mount -o vers=4 mseas-data:/home
mount.nfs: mounting mseas-data:/home failed, reason given by server:
   No such file or directory

What should I look at next?

Thanks.

Pat

>> Hi,
>>
>> A quick follow-up.  I tried reverting back to the
>> set ups on both machines before we enabled quotas.
>> Rebooted both machines.  Still cannot mount /home
>> from the client (mseas).
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just before the Thanksgiving break, we enabled quotas on
>>> the /home areas on the mseas-data server (running CentOS 5.8),
>>> using the following line in the updated /etc/fstab
>>>
>>> /dev/mapper/the_raid-lv_home /home              ext3
>>> defaults,usrquota,grpquota      1 0
>>>
>>> Following the Thanksgiving reboot of mseas-data we have been
>>> experiencing problems with svn on mseas (our front-end machine,
>>> running CentOS 6.2). After consulting with the svn mailing list,
>>> it appeared to be a communication issue between mseas and mseas-data.
>>> We therefore rebooted mseas. Now mseas is not mounting /home.
>>> We get the following error
>>>
>>> [root at mseas etc]# mount mseas-data:/home
>>> mount.nfs: Unknown error 521
>>>
>>> We have tried this mounting with both of the following lines
>>> in fstab and got the same error
>>>
>>> mseas-data:/home        /home               nfs     defaults        0 0
>>>
>>> mseas-data:/home        /home               nfs
>>> defaults,usrquota,grpquota        0 0
>>>
>>> (the latter was to mimic the mounting of /home on mseas-data)
>>>
>>> The only thing we've found out on the web so far was advice
>>> on editting /etc/exports to have an "insecure" option for
>>> the export of /home, which we already had.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on how to resolve or debug this issue would
>>> be greatly appreciated.
>>>
> 
> By which NFS version are you exporting from the mseas-data server...v3 or v4?
> 
> If v3, you may have to add "vers=3" to the options section of your fstab.
> Try manually mounting with -o vers=3 in the command line to see if this
> fixes things.
> 


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