On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 13:29 +1000, Neil Dugan wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed FC4 (minimum install) on a computer I intend to > setup as a server. > > When I went to enable the NFS, I can't get it to work properly. > The important error message is := > > # /etc/init.d/nfs start > # tail /var/log/messages > Sep 2 13:18:40 mini-cl exportfs[2524]: can't open /etc/exports for reading > Sep 2 13:18:40 mini-cl kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@xxxxxxxxxxxx). > Sep 2 13:18:40 mini-cl kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev nfsd, type nfsd), uses genfs_contexts > Sep 2 13:18:40 mini-cl rpc.idmapd: nfsdreopen: Opening '' failed: errno 2 (No such file or directory) > > And on the client use > # mount mini-cl:/mnt/storage storage > mount: mini-cl:/mnt/storage failed, reason given by server: Permission denied > > # exportfs -a > # tail /var/log/messages > Sep 2 13:21:30 mini-cl exportfs[2592]: can't open /etc/exports for reading > > # ls -l /etc/exports > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27 Sep 2 11:46 /etc/exports > > # cat /etc/exports > /mnt/storage 192.168.0.0/16(rw) > > # cat /etc/hosts.deny > portmap:ALL > > # cat /etc/hosts.allow > portmap: 192.168. > > If I use exportfs to bypass the /etc/exports file with > # exportfs -o rw 192.168.0.0/16:/mnt/storage > > and on the client use > # mount mini-cl:/mnt/storage storage > > Every thing works fine. > > Any help appreciated. Try checking the permissions on /etc/exports: $ ls -lZd / /etc /etc/exports I get: drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:root_t / drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:etc_t /etc -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:exports_t /etc/exports Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
