hey, thanks for the advice,so silly of me that i forget to think about this aspect,if i have given permissions for 192.168.1.56 how can i do it on 192.168.1.55. Thanks once again. Regards Ankush On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:53:11 -0800, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ankush Grover wrote: > > On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:48:04 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 12:40 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I am having one 2 debian pcs and 1 FC3 pc in my office.I want to share > >>>some files from debian pcs so that users on FC3 can access it.I can > >>>see the files by giving command > >>> > >>>showmount -e 192.168.1.56. > >>> > >>>But whenever i try to mount that share it gives error > >>> > >>>mount -t nfs 192.168.1.56:/ctn /ctn > >>> > >>>the /etc/exports file on one of the debian : > >>> > >>> > >>>/home/agrover 192.168.1.55(rw,sync,no_wdelay,squash uids-0-99) > >>>/ctn *(rw,async,no_root_squash) > >>>/var/log 192.168.1.55(ro,all_squash) > >>>/raju 192.168.1.55(rw,squash uids=0-99) > >>>/home/mverma 192.168.1.55(rw,squash uids=0-99) > >>>/home/rajat 192.168.1.55(rw,squash uids=0-99) > >>>/home/raju 192.168.1.55(rw,squash uids=0-99) > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>the error i get is > >>> > >>> mount to NFS server '192.168.1.56' failed: server is down.The nfs > >>>,portmap and rpc services are running on debain as i can see the > >>>process id with grep command. > >> > >>Can the debian server mount the filesystem back to itself? > >> > >># mkdir /mnt/tmp > >># mount -t nfs 192.168.1.56:/ctn /mnt/tmp > >> > >>That should establish whether the nfs server is working properly. > > No, because the /etc/exports file on .56 specifically states that /ctn > is exported ONLY to .55. > > > Hey thanks for the help, > > > > i can't mount the nfs shares on the debian pcs and it gives the following errors > > > > mount: 192.168.1.56:/home/raju failed, reason given by server: Permission denied > > > > I don't know much about debian. > > > > I know this is not debian list ,but if anybody knows the answer please tell me. > > Remember that your NFS client must ALSO be running portmap and rpc.statd > for NFS mounts to work. Once the mount happens, you can disable portmap > if you wish, but only after the mount is successful. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - I'm afraid my karma just ran over your dogma - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >
