On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, 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
Try an ordinary mount of an ext2/ext3 filesystem first to see if there's any problem with this. Next try exporting the /mnt directory and mounting that on box B, when you do this what happens on box B when you cd into the directory? You may have to ensure the vfat filesystem is mounted on box A with uid & gid options that match up with the user on box B. Just another tip, don't export mounts that are frequently unmounted eg /mnt/cdrom /mnt/floppy. Instead mkdir /mnt/var/cdrom, mkdir /mnt/var/floppy and export /mnt/var, change /etc/fstab to match. On the remote systems mount the /mnt/var directory. This avoids locking the mount point with NFS and making them a pain to un-mount. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Answering Machine/fax: 02 4950 1194 (wait 5 mins if no answer) Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
