Okay, folks, I've got a strange one here. this one has stumped my resident Unix experts that have been helping me with Linux/390 for two years.
I've got two SLES8 servers on a VM LPAR connected via a guest lan. One server (LINUXVM1) is a repository for all the CDs and patches that SuSE sends me so I can share them out among the various servers. The /cd directory contains the entire contents to be shared. The /etc/exports file reads: /cd *(ro,no_root_squash,async) and /etc/hosts.allow contains Another server (LNX20012) wants to mount this directory, and does so with the command mount -t nfs -o ro linuxvm1.ca.boeing.com:/cd /cd which gives the result "mount: linuxvm1.ca.boeing.com:/cd failed, reason given by server: Permission denied" On LINUXVM1, the /var/log/messages file has these entries: "Feb 20 10:10:59 linuxvm1 rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from 192.76.218 .147:855 for /cd (/cd) Feb 20 10:10:59 linuxvm1 rpc.mountd: getfh failed: Operation not permitted" the wierd part is that this error appears to be unique to the LNX20012 server. I can mount this directory from half a dozen other SLES8 servers. All the servers are on the same 192.76.218. subnet, which are all allowed by subnet in the /etc/hosts.allow file. I've tried disabling the /etc/hosts file jus in case I had a wrong IP address there, but it didn't help. The folks on this list have proved their brilliance in the past. Can you do it again? Where can I look for the discrepancy? "The Definition of a gentleman is a man who can play the banjo -- and don't!" -Mark Twain Gordon Wolfe, Ph. D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company
