Why are NFS permissions suddenly denied.

[kbb0927@cs.com]

David,

Thanks for the info, I solved it by editing the /etc/exports and fixing
the permissions that somehow got barfled.

Regards,

Keith B.

"David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:

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>Keith,
>
>Check to make sure:
>1. ?portmapper is running on all systems (server and client)
>2. ?that portmapper started before your rpc.xxx functions got called
>
>try this:
>rpcinfo -p ?(this command may not be found on some distros)
>you should see nfs and mountd anyway. ?If portmapper is started after the
>programs it needs to track it won't know about them.
>
>
>
>On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:09:15 -0500
>begin ?kbb0927 at cs.com spewed forth:
>
>> Hello List,
>> 
>> I am running a home lan of mixed linux/windoze boxen. ?My server is a
>> pure SuSE 7.2 with seperate partitions for /home and /public. ?I was
>> trying to back up the information using BRU personal v17.0 (it kept
>> hanging), in preparation for upgrading the server to SuSE 8.0. Prior to
>> doing anything I umounted all linux & windoze boxen from the server
>> while the backup was running. ?I decided to forget about it,as BRU kept
>> failing to write to a tape without alot of errors, and just keep on
>> using SuSE 7.2. ?However, when I went to remount all the boxen, only the
>> windoze will mount the server. ?Each time I try to mount with a linux
>> box, I get; Unable to mount...permission denied".
>> 
>> Anyone got any clues as to what is wrong? ?the /etc/exports did not
>> change The permissions on it AFAIK are the same. I can telnet or ssh
>> into the server from ANY linux boxen. /etc/hosts.allow =
>> ALL:192.161.1.0/255.255.255.0.
>> 
>> Any help appreciated. ?Could I just copy my smb.conf files and do a
>> fresh install of SuSE 8.0 preserving /home and /public? ?BTW
>> /etc/exports looks like this: ? /public \
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/cdrom ?\mnt\cdrom
>> 
>
>Ciao,
>
>David A. Bandel
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