On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 10:42 -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > I have a CentOS4 nfs (v3) server with a mounted disk on /Storage. I > have nfs-export this mount-point to various clients. Up until today it > worked fine. Now on any of the client machines when I try to mount the > share it simply reports > > mount: server:/Storage failed, reason given by server: Permission > denied" > > and the syslog on the nfs server reports > > rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from clientmachine:686 > for /Storage (/Storage) > > There is not mention in the log of any error. In desperation I even > tried just exporting to *(rw). Nothing. I can't even mount the share > from the nfs server from localhost. This one has me completely stumped. > There is no reason that it should not work. Is there some daemon that > I've forgotten about that I should restart? I've restarted portmapper, > the nfs daemons, the nfs lock daemon. I have a vague memory of > something similar happening to me once before, but I can't remember how > I fixed it. > > Any ideas would be appreciated. Oh. Selinux is off, so that's not the > problem. Nor is it a firewall issue.
Here is the solution for posterity The problem was that the special nfsd file system that mounts to /proc/fs/nfsd wasn't mounted. I'm not sure how it gets mounted (maybe rc.sysinit does it?), but I added an entry to /etc/fstab to be sure: none /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd auto,defaults 0 0 Once I did this, everything was completely happy. One final note. Apparently the nfsd mount is started when you modprobe nfsd on RHEL4. So on a reboot it would have been fine. In the meantime the fstab entry won't hurt anything. Michael > > Michael > -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
