Mounting NFS from an ordinary user

fahad26 · 05-11-2005, 03:54 AM

HOw can i mount nfs as an ordinary user?I have the exports file as follows

/home/exporte *(rw)

the error i get is that Permission denied and /home/exporte failed.

michaelsanford · 05-11-2005, 03:20 PM

Are you specifying a local mount point that you own?

fahad26 · 05-11-2005, 06:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by michaelsanford
Are you specifying a local mount point that you own?

No i the files i wan to mount are not local.

michaelsanford · 05-11-2005, 06:25 PM

Sorry if you know this, but I'll go over it anyway.

You need to specify a remote share and a local mount point, like this

Code:

mount gateway.local:/home/exporte /mnt/share

Where /tmp/share is the remote folder and /mnt/share is the local folder where the files will appear.

If you don't own (or have rw access to) /mnt/share you won't be able to mount it, as far as I know. So what are the permissions on the local folder (mount point) you're monting on?

I'm not totally sure but I think that /home/exporte also has to have at least 'all read' permissions.

fahad26 · 05-11-2005, 06:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by michaelsanford
Sorry if you know this, but I'll go over it anyway.

You need to specify a remote share and a local mount point, like this

Code:

mount gateway.local:/home/exporte /mnt/share

Where /tmp/share is the remote folder and /mnt/share is the local folder where the files will appear.

If you don't own (or have rw access to) /mnt/share you won't be able to mount it, as far as I know. So what are the permissions on the local folder (mount point) you're monting on?

I'm not totally sure but I think that /home/exporte also has to have at least 'all read' permissions.

I HAVE THE RW ACESS TO LOCAL /mnt/share WHERE I WANT TO MOUNT. THE ERROR I AM GETTING IS THAT

Permission denied.
/etc/exports FAILED

When i mount as su i am able to MOUNT but with an ordinary user I HAVE GOT PROBLEMS.

HELP ME OUT.

michaelsanford · 05-11-2005, 09:11 PM

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Originally posted by fahad26
HELP ME OUT.

What do you think I'm trying to do dude? Shouting isn't going to get anyone to help you, that's for sure.

To mount filesystems as a regular user you have to have the foreign filesystem in /etc/fstab and have the "user" flag set. There is no other way to do it IIRC.