Hi,


i have an RHEL5.2 client which cannot mount any NFS directory from RHEL4 (all release).

i've tried to mount directory from another RHEL5 (5, 5.2) and all works fine.

here is error message when i'm trying to mount from a RHEL4 :

# mount server_name:/nfs_dev /nfs_dev
mount: server_name:/nfs_dev failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

same message with IP adress of the server.

all servers are on a NIS domain, authentication works fine.

thanks,

regards.

Configure the server to allow the client to mount (/etc/exports, man exports) then re-export the NFS shares on the server (exportfs -vra)

Hi,

server configuration is good, all another REHL4 can mount shares. Only REHL5 cannot. Is there a special configuration in /etc/exports to be make for sharing with REHL5 ?

No. What's in /var/log/messages on the server when the RHEL5 client tries to mount?

mountd[10410]: authenticated mount request from RHEL5:786 for /nfs_dev (/nfs_dev)

the RHEL4 server "allows" the mount request but i have the error message on RHEL5 (and nothing on var/logs/messages).

can you add the type switch/option:
and if it doesn't work; can you post the line of the shared directory in your exports file.

Right, do what chickenjoy says. When you do that, can you also post any related lines in the client's /var/log/messages?

i've already tried with :

mount -t nfs RHEL4:/nfs_dev /nfs_dev

error message => mount: server_name:/nfs_dev failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

and with

mount -t nfs4 RHEL4:/nfs_dev /nfs_dev

error message => mount.nfs4: Operation not permitted


when i ask RHEL4 shares from RHEL5 with "showmount -e REHL4", all shares are sent to RHEL5.

here find RHEL4 exports file :

/data1 *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
/home *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
/nfs_dev *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

In var/log/messages client, nothing about mount operation.

thanks.

Can you try to check your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files for any clue that might be blocking the network that the rhel5s are in.

Hi,

those files are empty. there's no restriction on all servers and clients.

thanks

Did a test with rhel 4.8 and centos 5.5 and had no problems mounting an nfs share from ver4 on ver5.

Hi. I know I'm late, but maybe this will still help.
I had this issue when trying to mount an nfs share on a AIX machine, the client was a linux RHEL 5 server. It was a DNS problem. On AIX, the nfs server must be able to resolve the client’s IP address to host name (see ibm redbooks). To see it can resolve it, do a nslookup or connect from the client to the server and issue a "who".
An entry of the nfs client in the host's /etc/hosts solved the problem.