Hi

Once again I have got some problems with my fstab file. Every time I try a soluiton I seem to get it wrong, Its driving me crazy !!!

This is my fstab file:-

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=51e87899-2a1f-4458-aeb6-335de5e673a4 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=72b89743-9908-49eb-8e8e-287c113b6c6f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
geko4:/music_safe/music_store /music_safe/music_store nfs (rw,no_root_squash) 0 0

When I try to test this file by doing a mount -a I get the following error:-

/music_safe$ sudo mount -a
Unsupported nfs mount option: (rw

What I would really like to do is that anyone on that network can edit and read this directory but if I get geko4 working that would be a step in the right direction!!

What am I doing wrong? something stupid!! Can anyone help?

Adrian

Note: users option allows anybody to mount/umount

Is it a nfs file system or could it be a ntfs? might also try auto to see if it can autodetect it.

Edit:

Also need to check and see if you have nfs support installed on the system.

Well I have tried this as suggested by emerson, however I am still getting an error:-

sudo mount -a# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

fstab is now :-

#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=51e87899-2a1f-4458-aeb6-335de5e673a4 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=72b89743-9908-49eb-8e8e-287c113b6c6f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
geko4://music_safe/music_store /music_safe/music_store nfs rw,users 0 0
~

mount: geko4://music_safe/music_store failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

Now what does this mean, the paths are all 777 so it can not mean these can it?

Adrian

Are you getting this error trying to mount the partition as root?

Please show us the export file on that server.

Yes I am mounting this as root using
sudo mount -a
also

It is a nfs file system not ntfs and the nfs server is installed

any other ideas?

NFS server is installed, is it started too? What about that exports file I asked in my previous post?

Well here is my exports file:-

# Example for NFSv2 and NFSv3:
# /srv/homes hostname1(rw,sync) hostname2(ro,sync)
#
# Example for NFSv4:
# /srv/nfs4 gss/krb5i(rw,sync,fsid=0,crossmnt)
# /srv/nfs4/homes gss/krb5i(rw,sync)
#
#/media/windows/home2/music geko80(rw)
#/media/hdb6/media/music_safe geko80(rw)
#/media/music_safe 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 (rw,sync,no_root_squash)
/music_safe/music_store geko4(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

Does this help

/music_safe/music_store geko4(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

geko4 is the server, right?


/music_safe/music_store client_name_here(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
or, for entire subnet
/music_safe/music_store 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

Hooray its working that last change made the difference, thank you. I also found a error in the hosts.allow file so fixed it.
Thanks again

Adrian