Hi all,

I am trying to get a mount in my root directory to a folder on a remote machine so that a log in is not required to access it. I seem to be having some problems with permissions though.

So far I have:
- added the machine to my /etc/hosts file
- added remotemachine:/data /auto nfs ro,soft 0 0
to my /etc/fstab
- added remotemachine:/data /auto nfs rw,soft,addr=10.112.33.4 0 0 to my /etc/mtab file
- added /hostmachinefolder mymachineip(rw) to the host /etc/exports file

however when I mount -a on my machine i get
mount: remotemachine:/folder failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

Can anyone walk me through how to set this up?

Many thanks in advance
Jon

try using a credentials file

Sorry, I can't help you with your problem, I just want to note that /etc/mtab is not a configuration file and therefore editing this file has absolutely no consequences to your system.

Concur entirely. Mount handles that for you.

With nfs could be permissions on the exported folder, or could be portmap/rcpbind ports that need to be puched in the firewall(s). nfs4 makes this much easier. Prior to nfs4 I think the ports are dynamic (i.e. change all the bloody time) by default. What a stupid design.
Hit google.

Thanks for the replies,

My solution:
1. Create the directory on the local machine to link to

2. Add remote machine ip to /etc/hosts file
ip.ip.ip.ip host

3. Add host to /etc/fstab
host:/dir /local/dir nfs ro,soft 0 0

4. I could only get this working by editing the mtab as well.. don't know why if someone could explain this itd be nice.
host:/dir /local/dir nfs ro,soft,addr=10.112.33.4 0 0

5. Add local machine to host /etc/hosts file
ip.ip.ip.ip localname localname

6. Edit the /etc/exports to include the local ip
/hostname localname(ro)

7. Export the hosts filesystem
hostmachine#exportfs

8. Create mount to host
mount -t nfs -v ip.ip.ip.ip:hostdir /local/dir

9. Mount
localmachine# mount -a

Sweet!