Re: tlug: NFS permission denied

[Totoro <riley@example.com>]

On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

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

You need an entry in /etc/fstab to tell Linux that it's supposed to be
a NFS server. Mine looks like this:

     server:/backup/Linux    /nfs        nfs     timeo=14,intr

"/backup/Linux" is the directory on a second disk. Then restart the
daemon at /etc/rc.d/init.c/nfs. Shouldn't matter about DNS, I wouldn't
think. There are a few extra calls you might use in the fstab list.
Take a look at the HOWTO's in the LDP, as in mine:

     http://w3.clat.hi-tech.ac.jp/LDP/

It has more info on this than I have between my ears right now.


David Riley

Hachinohe Institute of Technology
88-1, Myo, Ohbiraki
Hachinohe-shi Aomori-ken

http://w3.clat.hi-tech.ac.jp

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