SOLVED:Re: NFS problems, cannot mount-permission denied

[John Stevenson <John@oa.nl>]

Thanks for the replys...

It turned out to be a combination between not having the right
IP address associate in the /etc/hosts file (I forgot I changed
my client IP address and had not updated the server).

Also another suggestion was the fact that I had ALL: PARANOID in
the /etc/hosts.deny file.

These are both fixed and now I can mount the file system from my
normal user account.  I am so happy, now I can enjoy christmas
properly...

byeeee...
John.

Frank Smith wrote:
> 
> 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 ????
> 
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