Re: NFS mounting problem

[Rob Duncan <rob.duncan@metamata.com>]

>>>>> "joost" == joost witteveen <joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl> writes:

    joost> In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Rob Duncan
    joost> wrote:

    >> I'm having some problems mounting with NFS.  The baffling thing
    >> is that the client machine (aidan) can happily mount two other
    >> directories from the server (miles), but consistently balks on
    >> this one.

Thanks joost for your help.  Happily, the source was available :-),
and a quick look at the code showed me that the error was stemming
from a call to lstat().  Turns out that nfsd requires access
permission to every component of the path to the exported directory.
I had inadvertently removed all world privileges to /usr/local, which
meant that nfsd wouldn't allow /usr/local/java to be mounted by
anyone.  One quick chmod later and I was a happy sysadmin again.

Thanks again,

Rob.


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