On 04/02/2015 09:03 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a Centos 6 NFS server, which dirves me crazy. > > The directory I try to export cant be accessed by different clients. > > I tried a centos 7, centos 6 and a pool of vmware esxi 5.5 systems. > > At the client side I get errors like: > > mount.nfs: Stale file handle > > or Sysinfo set operation VSI_MODULE_NODE_mount failed with the tatus > Unable to query remote mount point's attributes. > > > On the server I get messages in the log like > > svc: 172.17.252.35, port=851: unknown version (0 for prog 100003, nfsd) > > rpc.mountd[1927]: authenticated mount request from .... A good place to start on an issue like this would be to include your entire smb.conf file. Since you tried across three different Centos versions, It is likely either the configuration or the clients that are the problem. > > The curious thing is, that other directories exported on the same > filesysten can be exported. Can they be used by the same clients that are trying to use the /home/stuff directories, or are the clients for the two directories different? > > > so /home/stuff works /home/students fails. chmode 777 is set, > /etc/exports is double checked. nfs/rpc/etc is up and running. selinux & > firewall for debugging off. > > I use xfs on all shared filesystems. > > Googling for VMWARE and native NFS suggestions did not help so far :-/ > > Any hint or suggestion is very very welcome! Regard & thanks . Götz Ted Miller Elkhart, IN, USA