NFS problems anyone?

[Collins Richey]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:12 AM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've seen this.  In my case, running exportfs showed me the problem
> and subsequently running exportfs -a solved it (and exportfs showed
> more exports).

Thanks for the tip, David. It turns out that the problem was even
simpler. The aging switch serving the ports for the problem servers
was failing badly. Since the principle connection (after establishing
bona fides) works via UDP, the client was getting no response from the
server with no error messages. I'm not a developer, but it seems
rather poor form to issue a message "permission denied" when the
actual problem was "no response received". Sigh, lots of time wasted.
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Collins Richey
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