Re: tlug: NFS permission denied

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> I want to make the CD-ROM drive on my TurboLinux machine available as an
> NFS mount to my Sparc.  In /etc/exports, I have the FQDN of the Sparc, and
> also it's IP address on another line, listed with /mnt/cdrom.
> 
> I also have my Sparc listed in /etc/hosts on my TurboLinux box.  I've
> stopped and started NFS and Inetd, but I can't access the CD-ROM drive
> from the Sparc.  Issuing:
> 
> mount 202.235.216.25:/mnt/cdrom /mnt/rmt_cdrom
> 
> always gets me a "permission denied" message from the server.  What is it
> about this that my TL box doesn't like?  Neither of these machines is
> registered on DNS; is that necessary for NFS to work?

Did you restart nfs after editing /etc/exports ?

/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start

The line in /etc/exports should look like:

/mnt/cdrom	your.ip.addr.here (ro)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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