On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Abhinav Keswani wrote:
> hi there
>
> I am tryin veeery hard to get file sharing happening between my PC and my
> laptop
>
> I have tested the interfaces - I can ping each machine fine...so the cards
> are set up fine methinks
>
> so I progress to setting up NFS
>
> when one says that one wants to set up a NFS client - does that mean to say
> that if my machine 'micron' wants to mount a file system on my machine
> 'hal' that micron is the client? or is it simply just setting up NFS on a
> machine...?
micron is the client and hal is the server.
> I followed the steps in the NFS howto pretty carefully and I keep on
> getting the standard error message :
>
> mount: hal:/mn/hal/home/abi failed, reason given by server: Permission
> denied
Make sure you have portmap running as well as nfsserver. What dist do you use?
The error you're getting means you're server won't let your client mount the
dir. Try running "showmount -e hal" from either box. That will give you info
on what hal is willing to let others mount. What's your /etc/exports look
like?
I run nfs all over the place at work and other than typos generally don't have
a problem.
ciao,
der.hans
> I am bit lost here - can anyone suggest anything? are there any good books
> out there that I should be reading??
>
> thanks
> Abhinav
>
>
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