I have two machines:
Fedora 20 server, 192.168.3.41
ucLinux client, 192.168.3.43.

Server is serving a directory by nfs, here is the /etc/exports in toto:
/home/public 192.168.3.43/255.255.255.0 (rw)
/var/ftp/pub 192.168.3.43/255.255.255.0 (ro)

Seed directory with a file:
[root@localhost eric]# ls -la /home/public
total 12
drw-rw-rw-. 2 root root 4096 Jan 20 15:08 .
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Jan 17 14:13 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 2227 Jan 20 15:08 fil0.txt

Client does a mount:
mount -o rw,nolock,rsize=1024 192.168.3.41:/home/public /mnt

Check the mount:
~ # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000)
192.168.3.41:/home/public on /mnt type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=1024,wsize=32768,namlen=255,hard,nolock,proto=udp,port=65535,timeo=7,retra ns=3,sec=sys,mountport=65535,mountproto=,addr=192.168.3.41)

Now let's look at that directory on the client (from root dir):
~ # ls -la mnt
ls: mnt/fil0.txt: Permission denied
ls: mnt/..: Permission denied
ls: mnt/.: Permission denied

My /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files are empty. SELinux has been disabled since before the last reboot.

What is happening?

Eric

Looks like the "/home/public" directory isn't executable. You need to set the executable bit in order to list directories.

--C

That worked, but it baffles me. Why must the directory be marked executable to enumerate the files in it? Weird.

Thanks