On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:29 -0600, Charles Howse wrote: > I'm sure this has been asked and answered hundreds of times, but I've been > working on it for 2 days now, and can't resolve the issue. > I'm trying to mount an nfs filesystem that lives on FC4 from my Macintosh > across the home lan (machines are only 15' apart). ;-) > I can successfully mount nfs shares that live on the FreeBSD machine from > the Mac, and can successfully ssh to the FC4 box from the Mac. > > On FC4: > [root@shemp ~]# cat /etc/exports > /disc2 moe(rw,sync) larry(ro,sync) > /home moe(rw) larry(ro) > [root@shemp ~]# cat /etc/hosts.allow > # > # hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are > # allowed to use the local INET services, as decided > # by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server. > # > ALL: ALL > [root@shemp ~]# cat /etc/hosts.deny > # > # hosts.deny This file describes the names of the hosts which are > # *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided > # by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server. > # > # The portmap line is redundant, but it is left to remind you that > # the new secure portmap uses hosts.deny and hosts.allow. In particular > # you should know that NFS uses portmap! > > [root@shemp ~]# cat /proc/fs/nfs/exports > # Version 1.1 > # Path Client(Flags) # IPs > /home larry(ro,root_squash,sync,wdelay) > /disc2 larry(ro,root_squash,sync,wdelay) > [root@shemp ~]# cat /var/lib/nfs/xtab > [root@shemp ~]# exportfs -ra > exportfs: /etc/exports [2]: No 'sync' or 'async' option specified for export > "moe:/home". > Assuming default behaviour ('sync'). > NOTE: this default has changed from previous versions > > On the Mac: > [charles@larry:~]$ mount -t nfs shemp:/disc2 ~/mnt > mount_nfs: /Users/charles/mnt: Operation not permitted > [charles@larry:~]$ mount -t nfs shemp:/home ~/mnt > mount_nfs: /Users/charles/mnt: Operation not permitted > > properties for ~/mnt on the Mac: > 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 charles charles 102 Nov 20 17:11 mnt/ > > My uid/gid are the same on both client and server...my username is the same > on both machines, password is different. > > Anybody have a clue? I've read and read and Google'd and browsed till I'm > blue in the face. > Could this be a problem with (what is it...) "non-privileged ports"? Possibly, but make sure you have portmap, nfs and lockd running on your Linux box: # service portmap start # service nfslock start # service nfs start ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Microsoft Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was right - ----------------------------------------------------------------------