Re: NFS Mounts

Fritz Whittington wrote:

On or about 2004-04-23 14:39, Chris Garringer whipped out a trusty #2 pencil and scribbled:

The server should have the client in /etc/hosts.

sysadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxx 04/23/04 02:34PM >>>

----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Weisenstein To: Rob Freeman Cc: For users of Fedora Core releases Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: NFS Mounts

Rob Freeman wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Weisenstein" <dan@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 2:00 PM
Subject: NFS Mounts

 I have two Linux systems - one Fedora and one SuSE. I'm attempting to
mount a file system from one on the other (either way).

I've placed the file system in /etc/exports and done an exportfs -a to
populate xtab. nfsd and rpc.mountd are running. I've put ALL:ALL in
/etc/hosts.allow. The host names are in each others hosts files.

mount hostname:/home/shared /mnt/hostname

always returns a permission denied. What am I missing?

Thanks- Dan

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Having followed this so far, I can't help but comment that the original problem was not so much to run NFS, but to move some files. If it's a one-shot thing and not too much stuff, a 256 MB USB Key or similar might be viable. If Dan really needs true file-sharing, I submit that Samba is a lot easier to get working than all the discussion I've seen to get NFS working. Unless there's some obvious aw-sxxt like SuSE doesn't support Samba.

/etc/hosts.[allow,deny] are empty. SuSE supports Samba quite well. Haven't played with it too much in Fedora, yet.

I seems to me that using Samba to provide mounts between 2 *nix systems is adding a layer of unecessary complexity. NFS has been around for decades and should be one of the most stable things about *nix. I've been using Unix since 1985 and I can't remember having a problem like this. Now, I haven't used any *nix for a few years, and just got back into it via Linux a year ago. But I still remember most of the 'old' stuff.

Trying to mount a Fedora filesystem to the SuSE system results in permission denied. Trying to mount a SuSE filesystem on Fedora results in connection refused. Ugh...

Dan