Jeremy, lnx20012 has only one IP address on one guest lan.
hmmm.. Interesting, though. lnx20012 and linuxvm1 are on DIFFERENT guest lans. "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 > ---------- > From: Jeremy Warren > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 11:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Can't mount nfs > > I didn't get your hosts.allow... > > but is the LNX20012 guest is multihomed? It might be going out the other > subnet for one reason or another and backhauling in causing the security > violation since it would be coming from an unauthorized subnet. > > > > > > > > "Wolfe, Gordon W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 02/20/2004 01:22 PM > Please respond to Linux on 390 Port > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: > Subject: [LINUX-390] Can't mount nfs > > > 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 > >
