Re: tlug: NFS permission denied

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Andrew S. Howell wrote:

> >>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com> writes:
> 
> Jonathan,
> 
>     Jonathan> I want to make the CD-ROM drive on my TurboLinux machine
>     Jonathan> available as an NFS mount to my Sparc.  In /etc/exports,
>     Jonathan> I have the FQDN of the Sparc, and also it's IP address
>     Jonathan> on another line, listed with /mnt/cdrom.
> 
>     Jonathan> I also have my Sparc listed in /etc/hosts on my
>     Jonathan> TurboLinux box.  I've stopped and started NFS and Inetd,
>     Jonathan> but I can't access the CD-ROM drive from the Sparc.
>     Jonathan> Issuing:
> 
>     Jonathan> mount 202.235.216.25:/mnt/cdrom /mnt/rmt_cdrom
> 
>     Jonathan> always gets me a "permission denied" message from the
>     Jonathan> server.  What is it about this that my TL box doesn't
>     Jonathan> like?  Neither of these machines is registered on DNS;
>     Jonathan> is that necessary for NFS to work?
> 
> Is the cd mounted on the linux box? You can't remote mount something
> that itself is not mounted.

Not true - as long as the mount point /mnt/cdrom or whatever exists on the
remote server, you can nfs mount it (there won't be anything there, but it
won't give permission denied).

> 
> 	Did you do a "exportfs -a"? This needs to be done before the
> system will see the changes in /etc/exports.
> 

Hm, I mentioned restarting nfs with a sysv init script - I actually didn't
know about exportfs, thanks for the tip :)


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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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