Re: NFS submounts

[Chris Baker <baker@treyarch.com>]

Randy Edwards <redwards@golgotha.net> writes:

>    I'm having a problem with NFS.  My basic NFS is working; so I can mount
> the shares remotely.  The problem is that I cannot "see" submounted
> partitions from across the network.
> 
>    For example, on the server I have /home/ftp/pub as one partition.  Then I
> have /home/ftp/pub/linux/debian as another drive/partition mounted on the
> server.  I want to share out via NFS the /home/ftp/pub "tree", including the
> debian subdirectory/partition.
> 
>    I can mount the /home/ftp/pub on the client just fine, and I can access
> all the files normally.  But when I try to access anything in the debian
> subdirectory I get a "fh_verify: linux/debian permission failure, acc=4,
> error=1" error message on the server.
> 
>    I've set permissions properly on the server and I've tried playing with
> various combinations of options from "man exports" but I can't seem to
> convince this to work properly.

Stupid question: have you mounted the subdirectory locally?  I.e., try

# mount server:/home/ftp/pub /mnt
# mount server:/home/ftp/pub/linux/debian /mnt/linux/debian

HTH,

cbb