When I try to mount a share on my other linux (RH7.3), I get a server response "permission denied". I have followed all of the steps to do so and I am not sure why I am getting this error. I know the permissions on the folder itself are good cause I can access the folder with samba using a winblows machine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mike

Please be more specific about step you follow and comands
used? Also post /etc/fstab and /etc/exports files, from the server you are exporting the filesystem from.

And of course any related errors from /var/log/messages
on both servers.

error msg
mount: linuxbox:/shared failed, reason given by server: Permission Denied

/etc/fstab


label=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 /swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/shared auto defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0


/etc/exports


/mnt/shared 192.168.0.8(rw,no_root_squash,insecure) 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash,insecure)

Hope this helps cause I cant figure it out The only thing is that in my fstab the shared folder is auto instead of nfs ???????

You might want to take a look at this:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/index.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/resour.../NFS-Tips.html
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...de/ch-nfs.html

Did you make sure on the server to have the host trying to mount the shared directory in the /etc/hosts file ? Not sure if that would help if you have the exports correct.. also check the permissions on the directory.

Also, shouldn't you have something like in this format in your /etc/fstab on the host trying to mount the shared directory:

servername:/mnt/shared /mnt/shared nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14

Let us know ! Need more details on the server side and client side.

What syntax were you using for you mount statement?
mount remote_server:/dev/xxx /mnt

or is it
mount remote_server:/exported_mnt /mnt

Are you sure nfsd is running?
Chck /etc/init.d and see if there is an nfs script

If there is do /etc/init.d/nfsd stop; /etc/init.d/nfsd start

Ok, I checked all the hosts and allow and deny. Everything looks right. Now when I try to mount -a i get RPC: program not registered.

This is getting a bit frustrating

Any ideas??????

And you didn't find anything in the links I gave you, that
would helo

Thanks trickykid. It was my goof up. I didnt have it typed in right in my fstab on my client! It works now! Thank you all for all of your help! This list rocks!