[plug] NFS problem

[Peter Sutter]

On Thursday 12 July 2007 17:33, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> On 7/12/07, Jim Householder <nofixed at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> > Jim Householder wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Since installing FC6 I have had problems getting NFS mounts to work.
> > > I'm currently trying to access a directory on an FC6 machine from a
> > > Gentoo system on the same LAN.  No selinux or firewalls are enabled,
> > > and permissions on the directory are 777.  Yet I get
> > >
> > > mount: 192.168.0.4:/data failed, reason given by server: Permission
> > > denied
> > >
> > > What do I need to do?
> >
> > I forgot to add
> > /etc/exports  for 192.168.0.4
> > /data  192.168.0.*(rw,sync)
>
> I've had troubles with such syntax (even though it should work..): try
> /data 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0(sync,rw)
>
> If that doesn't work, is portmap running? Kernel config?
>
> Tomasz
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The newer versions of nfs server appear to dislike wildcards and netmasks 
like /24, they expect /255.255.255.0 as mask. Also hosts.allow and hosts.deny 
settings can affect nfs.

Peter