The
exports file is required on a Linux NFS
server. It defines the shares supported by the server, and what client hosts have access to each share, and the type of access granted. When you say 'Mounting from a Seagate NAS server to the RHEL 6.1 server', I find it a bit confusing. I would expect you to be running a
mount command on the NFS
client (never mind that the NFS client is in some other sense a 'server'). The command would look something like:
Code:
mount -t nfs the.nas.host:/NASshare /some/mountpoint/directory
Are you sure the NAS has granted access to the share for your particular NFS client? Does the NAS have any diagnostics or log files to see what clients are attaching? Is it serving files successfully to other NFS clients? Running the
mount command from a shell is exactly the same as running it by having it read from the
fstab file.
--- rod.