Re: NFS problems, cannot mount-permission denied

[Frank Smith <frank@artair.com>]

One possibility is that the client is not named what you think. Try to
telnet from the client to the NFS server and do a 'who' and see what it
thinks the clients hostname is.  You are exporting to myclientname but
the server may be seeing it as myclientname.domain.nam and that won't
match causing the 'permission denied' error.

Good luck,
Frank

--On Thursday, December 24, 1998, 3:24 PM +0100 John Stevenson <John@oa.nl>
wrote:
> 
> I am trying to set up NFS between to Debian Linux 'Hamm' boxes. 
> I have followed all the instructions in the NFS Howto, but
> always run into a permissions problem.
> 
> * edited /etc/exports file and added the following line:
> 
> /nfs/export myclientname(rw)
> 
> 
> mount: myserver:/nfs/export failed, reason given by server:
> Permission denied
> 
> 
> Does any one have any clues as to what is wrong ????