Re: [SLUG] Can't mount NFS drives

From: Logan (logan1304@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Aug 22 2003 - 10:48:11 EDT


On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 23:08, Paul M Foster wrote:
> I've got a machine I'm converting over from RH6.2 to Debian 3.0r1. I've
> set this machine to export three directories via NFS, like this (in the
> /etc/exports file):
>
> /mnt/lists *(rw,insecure,no_root_squash)
>
> This directory does exist. I have it mounted on the server, and running
> the NFS daemons does not return errors. Running showmount -e shows them
> as being exported.
>
> On the client, I have the following in my /etc/fstab file:
>
> bullwinkle:/mnt/lists /mnt/lists nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr
> 0 0
>
> I can run this manually as well, but either way, I get a "Permission
> denied" error coming from the server. There is nothing in the server's
> hosts.deny nor hosts.allow files, and no firewall running. BTW, I am
> running these commands as root (no other way to mount on the client).
>
> Any clues as to why the server won't give me permission?
>
> Paul
Oops, must read posts after coffee, ignore the /etc/hosts.equiv stuff.
Make sure you have the portmapper running. Try:

dpkg -l |grep portmap

Logan

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