Shawn wrote: > I'm trying to NFS mount a directory off another server, it allows all boxes to connect to it btw. I can get the directory to mount on other systems that haven't mounted it previously without issue. The system I'm having these problems on, I always get "permission denied" errors. What to check when nfs doesn't work: Ex: root at local# mount -t nfs remote:/exported /nfsmount mount: remote:/exported failed, reason given by server: Permission denied # portmap needs to be running on both local and remote systems ps -ef|grep portmap # the nfs server needs to have nfs support in its kernel or must # support nfs via modules: # monolithic kernel cat /proc/filesystems | grep nfs # modular kernel lsmod | grep nfs # if you use /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} you must allow NFS and portmap # to do this, in /etc/hosts.allow you needs lines like this: # on nfs client, you need to allow the nfs server's <IP> # on nfs server, you need to allow the nfs client <IP> and/or <IP-range> # NFS portmap: 127.0.0.1 <IP> <IP> ... : allow rpc.mountd: 127.0.0.1 <IP> <IP> ... : allow # nfs server, in /etc/exports, you must export the filesystems you're # trying to nfs mount remotely on the nfs client # cat /etc/exports /exported 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash) # make sure nfs service is started on the nfs server RH 6.x: /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfslock start /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start Slackware: /etc/rc.d/rc.nfsd start -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list