On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:31:37AM +1100, 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
Any messages from the NFS server in syslog? The most common issue I've come across is that the client must be in the server's /etc/hosts file or access is refused. I don't know whether that applies to the kernel nfs daemon though. HTH, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
