[plug] NFS problem

[Matt Kemner]

On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, John Summerfield wrote:

> Does anyone have any idea what's wrong here?
> When I try out mount possum's devices on em, I get this on possum:
> [root at possum /etc]# tail /var/log/messages 
> Nov 27 20:08:31 possum automount[5634]: expired /misc/cd
> Nov 27 20:11:35 possum mountd[283]: NFS mount of /redhat attempted from 192.168.1.2 
> Nov 27 20:11:35 possum mountd[283]: Unauthorized access by NFS client 192.168.1.2. 
> Nov 27 20:11:35 possum mountd[283]: Blocked attempt of 192.168.1.2 to mount /redhat 

> Hint: I'm not using wrappers for nfs, so it's not hosts.* files.

You may not be using tcpd wrappers for nfs, but the latest mountd (at
least the latest that ship with Debian) are linked to libwrap, so they
depend on HOSTS_ACCESS(5) files themselves.
I needed to add an allow line for rpc.mountd for my clients in my server's
files.

> It did work here, I'm pretty sure in the past month or so.

That's par for the course... Isn't NFS fun? :)

HTH

 - Matt