Howard Lowndes wrote: > > I have a vfat partition mounted on box A and I am then trying to nfs mount > that from box B. Box A looks to accept the nfs mount request OK judging > by the /proc/fs/nfs and /var/lib/nfs entries, but box B is still denied > the access; the message from box B (NFS client) being: > > mount 192.168.255.131:/mnt/hda /mnt/disk/ > mount: 192.168.255.131:/mnt/hda failed, reason given by server: Permission denied > > I have /etc/exports and /etc/hosts.allow set up OK. > >
But can you export a non VFAT partition (Ext2, ISO9660, etc.) from A and mount it on B? Could be a problem with portmapping or ipchains/iptables (note that a standard RH7.2 install with Medium level security will stop NFS from working, even as a client). Cheers, Bob Edwards. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
