NFS Woes: Client denied permission

Swakoo · 03-10-2006, 04:41 AM

I'm trying out NFS and I manage to link a client and server.. without much option.

I was playing around with hosts.deny, hosts.allow etc... and suddenly it can't work.

I've cleared all entries in hosts.deny and hosts.allow, i have set /etc/exports to

/mnt/mydir *(rw)

I've stop iptables...

it still show me "reason given by server: permission denied"

Am quite at a lost.. could i have triggered some security functions without knowing...?

I'm trying to mount/connect using root.

please advice

jcliburn · 03-10-2006, 11:03 AM

Try disabling SELinux. If your problem goes away, you can either leave it disabled or configure it properly for nfs (man nfs_selinux).

Swakoo · 03-13-2006, 04:45 AM

SELinux is disabled already... iptables too

its weird.. after I played with hosts.deny and hosts.allow its not working now.. always prompt the following

Quote:

mount: 192.168.1.246:/files/ failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

I used the following to mount from the client

Quote:

mount -t nfs -o rsize=1024,wsize=1024 192.168.1.246:/files/ /home/user/remotefiles/ -v

server side, in /etc/exports, the entry is as follows:

Quote:

/files 192.168.1.243(rw)

hosts.deny and hosts.allow is cleared up already....

but when ever i run nfs it will prompt this, i wonder if it affects...

Quote:

Starting NFS services: exportfs: /etc/exports [1]: No 'sync' or 'async' option specified for export "192.168.1.243:/files".
Assuming default behaviour ('sync').
NOTE: this default has changed from previous versions

But the service still loads normally...

anyone?

Swakoo · 03-13-2006, 05:10 AM

I just tried mounting with

Quote:

mount 192.168.1.243:/files /home/user/remotesite

it works...

as mentioned earlier

Quote:

mount -t nfs -o rsize=1024,wsize=1024 192.168.1.243:/files/ /home/user/remotefiles/

the above didn't work :s

weird......