[ale] NFS as a hair-loss enhancer

[Joe Knapka]

I'm pretty sure the problem was a syntax error in /etc/exports.
I had:

/home/export 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw)

Changing it to:

/home/export 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 (rw)

(note extra space)

made everything work (or so it appears).

Thanks,

-- Joe


Jared Lyvers wrote:
> 
> I have always edited the following files in order to allow my nfs to work.
> ## needed to tell system what to export
> /etc/exports
>         /dir/export     mysystem(rw)
> 
> ## needed to tell system what the system is ( NFS will not work here)
> /etc/hosts
>         192.168.1.2  mysystem.foo.bar   mysystem
> 
> ## needed to tell system who is allowed to export
> /etc/hosts.allow
>         portmap:          192.168.1.2:255.255.255.0
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> <<--start snipit--
> #I don't know what I did, but suddenly it works. Any insight
> #into what might have been the problem is still appreciated.
> #
> #-- Joe
> #
> #Joe Knapka wrote:
> #
> #> Hi, everyone,
> #>
> #> I know I'm missing something obvious; hopefully the act of
> #> sending this email and exposing my ignorance will immediately
> #> cause the veil to be drawn from my eyes...
> #>
> #> I'm trying to install Slackware onto a machine via NFS. My problem
> #> is that no matter what I do, my NFS server refuses permission to
> #> the client. The contents of hosts.allow and hosts.deny are completely
> #> irrelevant, it seems; rpc.mountd always just says:
> #>
> #> <Some stuff about being unable to resolve the client host name,
> #> which is curious since nslookup resolves it just fine>
> #> Blocked attempt of <client address> to mount /export
> #>
> #> and the client says
> #>
> #> mount: whyme:/export failed. Reason given by server: Permission denied
> #>
> #> /export is exported to my local net in /etc/exports, exporfs has been
> #> run, and (at present) hosts.deny is empty and hosts.allow says:
> #>
> #> # It's not obvious whether the "rpc." prefix is necessary...
> #> portmap: ALL
> #> rpc.portmap: ALL
> #> mountd: ALL
> #> rpc.mountd: ALL
> #>
> #> This behavior occurs even if rpc.mountd is started in
> #> "promiscuous" mode.
> #> I have tried every conceivable combination of permissions in
> #> hosts.allow and hosts.deny.
> #> I have tried mounting from different machines, including the
> #> NFS server itself, always with the same exact results. The
> #> NFS HOWTO was unhelpful. Can anyone spare a clue?
> #>
> #> Thanks,
> #>
> #> -- Joe Knapka
> #> (now relocated from west GA to El Paso, TX)
> --end snipit-->>
> 
> --
> Do, or do not.  There is no try.  --Yoda
> 
> Jared Lyvers
> System Administrator
> Lewis Communications | Birmingham
> 205.980.0774 x3047
> http://www.lewiscommunications.com/employees/jaredlyvers
> 
>         |
> |__--McGregor--__|
>         |
>    Jared Lyvers
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