[plug] Attempting to install redhat 5.2 over network

[Shackleton, Kevin]

Does "anyone" have read permission to your server directories? - ie have you
chmod'ed 777 allover the place in desperation?  Remember "david" on the
server is not "david" on the client.

Here's my /mnt permissions:

[kevins at aggrs_srv2 kevins]$ ls -l /mnt
total 4
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root     root         1100 Feb  1 08:00 cdrom
drwxrwxr-x   2 root     root         1024 Feb  7  1996 floppy
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Oct 30 05:10 nfs

(I mount arbitrary stuff from the other Linux machines onto "nfs")

These are the nfs server processes running on this machine:

root       262  0.0  0.4   856    72  ?  S  Feb  1   0:04 rpc.mountd
root       271  0.0  0.4   880    72  ?  S  Feb  1   0:03 rpc.nfsd

[kevins at aggrs_srv2 kevins]$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs status
rpc.mountd (pid 262) is running...
rpc.nfsd (pid 271) is running...

Now if I telnet to another machine (which doesn't have the PS1 set properly)
. .

$ mount -t nfs aggrs_srv2:/mnt/cdrom /mnt/srv2_cdrom
mount: only root can do that
$ su
Password:
aggrs_srv3:/home/kevins# mount -t nfs aggrs_srv2:/mnt/cdrom /mnt/srv2_cdrom
aggrs_srv3:/home/kevins#

So you see root was needed to make the connection, but of course root is
different on each machine too.

K.

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> From: 	David Buddrige[SMTP:buddrige at q-net.net.au]
> It comes back saying I don't have permissions.
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