I am mystified as to what is happening to my NFS mount.

I have one server aat IP address 192.168.1.52 with /etc/exports including
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/archive 192.168.1.75(sync,rw)
..

and an fstab at 192.168.1.75 which includes

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192.168.1.52:/archive /mnt/archive-on-ct-archive nfs hard,rsize=32769,wsize=32768 0 0
...

this configuration works fine throughout the network. However I rebooted the machine today and all I now get is :-

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[root@ct-db-drs log]# mount -v /mnt/archive-on-ct-archive/
mount: trying 192.168.1.52 prog 100003 vers 3 prot tcp port 2049
mount: trying 192.168.1.52 prog 100005 vers 3 prot udp port 898
mount: 192.168.1.52:/archive failed, reason given by server: Permission denied
..............


on the server its very strange as /var/log/messages simply says :-

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Oct 25 14:49:19 ct-archive mountd[6778]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.1.75:648 for /archive (/archive)
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which is very strange as it sounds like the NFS server is allowing the connection.

Does anybody have any ideas ? Are there any other NFS logs I can look at ? There doesn't appear to be a hell of a lot for me to go on ..

I've restarted the server service loads of times, incidentally.


johnnie d

It sounds like the directory is not properly exported. What does it say when you run the exportfs command?

It was solved after a while by mounting the nfsd with

"mount -t nfsd nodev /proc/fs/nfsd"