[plug] NFS mount problem

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Mike Holland wrote:

> 
> After upgrading my server from redHat 6.0 to 6.2, it refuses to allow
> remote mounting of the root directory. Only the root export seems to be
> affected.
> 
> /etc/exports:
> /usr    (ro)
> /       (ro)
> 
> "showmount -e" gives:
> Export list for salween.golden.wattle.id.au:
> /          (everyone)
> /usr       (everyone)
> 
> The server log has:
> Jul 14 16:53:31 salween mountd[835]: authenticated mount request from 
> donau:992 for / (/)
> Jul 14 16:53:31 salween mountd[835]: getfh failed: Operation not permitted
> 
> Its a nearly useless error message, so I run a trace on the mount demon to
> find where it actually fails. Its a nfsservctl() call, just after writing
> to /var/lib/nfs/xtab . This file has no man page.

man exportfs to get info on this file and ways to control it.
I don't know how relevant it is BUT it may help.

Also you may want to check out the FAQ at:
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/

Yours Tony.

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