Re: tlug: NFS permission denied

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Rex Walters wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 10:02:31AM +0900, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Andrew S. Howell wrote:
> > 
> > >Is the cd mounted on the linux box? You can't remote mount something
> > >that itself is not mounted.
> > >
> > >	Did you do a "exportfs -a"? This needs to be done before the
> > >system will see the changes in /etc/exports.
> > 
> > It is mounted.  I followed the NFS export instructions in the Red Hat 5
> > manual, which apparently are rather incomplete, since the answers
> > appearing on TLUG have given me some new information.
> 
> I don't think exportfs is used by any modern version of Linux (I know it
> isn't in RH5).  You need to:
> 
> 1) RTFM ("man exports", "man mountd", "man nfsd" for starts)
> 
> 2) Make sure that rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd are running (you did install
>    the nfs-server RPM didn't you?)
> 
> 3) Send a SIGHUP to rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd whenever you make a change
>    to /exports (or mount your cd locally on the linux server).

Rex - #3 is exactly what 'exportfs' does...

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