I'm running FC5 on 2 machines at home. Would like to mount /home from 'luna' onto /home on 'jupiter'. I used webmin to set up the exportfs file on luna. Made sure nfsd, mountd etc. are running on luna. When I go over to jupiter and try:

mount -t nfs4 luna:/home /home

(running as root) I get this:

[root@jupiter ~]# mount -t nfs4 luna:/home /home
mount: permission denied


I'm guessing I'm missing something simple. I added an entry in both firewalls to allow traffic on eth0 since this is an internal home network (I have a third machine running as a firewall to the outside world).

Here is the output of a couple of commands from 'luna' - the server side.

nbc@luna 101: cat /etc/exports
/home jupiter(insecure,rw,nohide)
jupiter(ro,fsid=0)
nbc@luna 102: ps -ef |grep nfs
root 2201 11 0 Jun30 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd4]
root 2202 1 0 Jun30 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 2203 1 0 Jun30 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 2204 1 0 Jun30 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 2205 1 0 Jun30 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 2206 1 0 Jun30 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 2207 1 0 Jun30 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 2208 1 0 Jun30 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 2209 1 0 Jun30 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
nbc 12661 12624 0 17:36 pts/2 00:00:00 grep nfs
nbc@luna 103: ps -ef |grep mountd
root 2215 1 0 Jun30 ? 00:00:00 rpc.mountd
nbc 12663 12624 0 17:36 pts/2 00:00:00 grep mountd

Can someone give me a hint as to what I'm missing? I'm guessing it is something simple...

thanks in advance. You can email me directly at nbc@acm.org

nbc

does the end of /var/log/messages on either machine report anythign about a denial? can your server resolve the "jupiter" client name? what if you put an ip address there instead?

and *never* ask for private direct replies.. why would anyone ever want to do that??

I can ssh to jupiter without any problem. I had tried an IP address with no luck. This morning I put a 'tail -f' on /var/log/messages, tried the mount command and it worked.... Nothing has changed in the system that I'm aware of. But it worked.... I'm still confused. But it worked... I have not touched the machine in 2 days - was busy all day yesterday... but thanks for the suggestions. I had not checked the log file - I will make sure I do that first next time.

And I'm sorry about the 'direct reply' line - I do that sort of automatically on some forums we have at work - saves bandwidth sometimes... In this environment, it probably doesn't make sense tho...

thanks for the pointers,

nbc