[plug] NFS Permission Denied

[Ian Kent]

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 17:59 +0800, Innis Cunningham wrote:
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> > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 12:32 +0800, Innis Cunningham wrote:
> >> Hi All
> >> Well almost got my NFS network to work.
> >> I have two boxes with NFS running.
> >> I can mount box A from both box A and box B but I can't
> >> mount box B from box A or box B it gives me a permission denied
> >> message.What am I missing.
> >> Should I have both boxes running a NFS server on the one network
> >> or should there be only one NFS server on the network.
> > 
> > This is really vague!
> Well I dont' know if I can make it clearer but I will try.
> I have two Ubuntu boxes both have the NFS system installed.
> If I write
> mount  box A:/home  /mnt/home  on both box A and box B I can
> see box A's home directory on either box
> If I write
> mount box B:/home  /mnt/home all I get is a permission denied warning.
> What I am trying to find out is if the reason I can't mount box B is because of a
> network problem or because you should not have two NFS severs running on the one
> LAN

There's a umount /mnt/home before you try to mount box B right?

> > 
> > If a machine wishes to share (ie. export a file system in NFS speak)
> > then the NFS server services must be running and the file system must be
> > listed as exported.
> > 
> > Ian
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Cheers
> Innis
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