mounting a network drive...

Sonny · 01-22-2002, 01:52 PM

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to mount a couple of network directories. I've gotten the following message:

mount dev1:/usr failed, reason given by server: Permission denied.

Funny thing is I've mounted dev1:/home which has exactly the same permissions. Here is the ls -l for these directories:

drwxr-xr-x 37 root root home
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root usr

Now, I am connecting from my laptop and the root password on my laptop is different from what is on dev1.

Any ideas anyone?

Sonny.

lfslinux · 01-22-2002, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Sonny
Hi Guys,

I'm trying to mount a couple of network directories. I've gotten the following message:

mount dev1:/usr failed, reason given by server: Permission denied.

Funny thing is I've mounted dev1:/home which has exactly the same permissions. Here is the ls -l for these directories:

drwxr-xr-x 37 root root home
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root usr

Now, I am connecting from my laptop and the root password on my laptop is different from what is on dev1.

Any ideas anyone?

Sonny.

You're using NFS I'm assuming now. You need to export every seperate filesystem seperate in the /etc/exports file

If you have a line like:/ 192.168.4.2(rw,no_root_squash)

and /usr is on a different partition, it won't work. You have to add a seperate export for /usr

Sonny · 01-22-2002, 02:33 PM

Hi Gerard,

Yes I am using NFS and yes the usr directory is on a separate partition. I've modified my dev1:/etc/exports file to the following:

/usr Selusa_Secundus(rw,no_squash_root)

However, I am still getting the same "Permission denied" message.

Sonny.

acid_kewpie · 01-22-2002, 02:38 PM

run 'exportfs' to see what NFS *thinks* it's exported

lfslinux · 01-22-2002, 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Sonny
Hi Gerard,

Yes I am using NFS and yes the usr directory is on a separate partition. I've modified my dev1:/etc/exports file to the following:

/usr Selusa_Secundus(rw,no_squash_root)

However, I am still getting the same "Permission denied" message.

Sonny.

that line is identical to other directories in /etc/exports ?

did you run "exportfs -ra"? This will re-export all the exported things. You need to do that in order for the newly added export to be available.

If it still doesn't work check the server's system log file for additional error. This file may be called /var/log/sys.log sometimes it's called something else, so have a look at /var/log

Sonny · 01-22-2002, 03:22 PM

Thanks Gerard and Chris!

The exportfs -ra did the trick!

Sonny.

Sonny · 01-24-2002, 12:08 PM

Hi Guys,

I seem to be having trouble accessing my files on the mounted drive. I believe the problem is related to the different uid that is assigned to me on the remote file system. On my local drive, my uid is 500 (I got this from looking in /etc/passwd) while on the remote system, my uid is 518. How do I make the remote file system recognize that sonny(uid=500 on the local system) is equivalent to sonny(uid=518 on the remote sytem)?

Sonny.