> Tim Holmes wrote: > >>On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:50:54PM -0400, Tim Holmes wrote: > >> > >>>Good afternoon > >>> > >>>I was just setting up one of my servers, and ran into a perplexing > >>>problem. > >>> > >>>I edited my /etc/fstab file and added my new mounts ie: > >>> > >>>Srvfs-01:/home /home nfs > > > > hard,intr > > > >>> > >>>Then restarted the nfs service > >> > >>nfs service needs to run only on the server not the client. > >> > >>>When I type > >>> > >>>mount srvfs-01:/home > >>> > >>>I get mount failed, reason returned by server -- permission denied > >> > >>The mount above should be mount /home. > >> > >>> > >>>I am logged in as root on the box im working on, and im just not > > > > sure > > > >>>where to begin trouble shooting this one > >>> > >>>Any insights would be appreciated > >>> > >>>TIM > > > > [Tim Holmes wrote] > > Good Morning Folks > > > > I tried the above suggestions, as far as the mount command syntax, and > > it still returns the same error -- here is the session transcript > > > > login as: root > > root@xxxxxxxxxxxx's password: > > Last login: Thu Apr 14 13:53:56 2005 from mod3teacher.mcaschool.net > > [root@SRVDB-01 root]# mount /home > > mount: srvfs-01:/home failed, reason given by server: Permission denied > > [root@SRVDB-01 root]# > > > > > > I hate to admit to confusion, but I am totally lost on this one. > > If "/usr/sbin/showmount -e srvfs-01" shows nothing from this particular > client but does show something from a different client, it's likely to > be a problem at the client side. Do you have any firewall running on > this client? Can this client mount any NFS shares from any other server? > > Paul. [Tim Holmes wrote] Here is the output of /usr/sbin/showmount -e srvfs-01 on the webserver where it is working correctly login as: root root@xxxxxxxxxxxx's password: Last login: Mon Apr 11 16:25:46 2005 from dpc674485238.direcpc.com [root@SRVWEB01 root]# /usr/sbin/showmount -e srvfs-01 Export list for srvfs-01: /root 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 /home 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 /shared 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 [root@SRVWEB01 root]# The firewall is not running on the database server (the affected one) I tried exporting a directory from another computer, and it mounted normally, so I suspect that there is something set flaky at the server, but again I don't know what TIM
