On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 10:51 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Mike Chambers wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:27 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > > > >> but the truth is that using automounts such as /etc/auto.home > >> or /auto.misc is even better > >> > > > > I wanted to use auto mounts before myself, but the one problem I ran > > into, was if the directory wasn't mounted, and I wanted to download a > > file off the internet (via firefox, or even an ftp gui) and onto the nfs > > share, it wouldn't be accessible. I would have to get access it or > > whatever to get it to mount/appear and then download. So I use fstab to > > perm mount it. > > > > > I'm still trying to mount as user "bobg" without success! 192.168.1.48 > is the server, 192.168.1.9 is a client and in the "box9" client I have > the following lines in /etc/fstab: > > 192.168.1.48:/home /home/NFS-files nfs > rw,users 0 0 > 192.168.1.9:/home /home/NFS-files nfs > rw,users 0 0 > > I'm not certain both are required but when I su to root everything works > as expected. As user "bobg" I get the following: > > [bobg@box9 ~]$ mount.nfs box48:/home/NFS-files /mnt/home > mount.nfs: permission denied: no match for /mnt/home found in /etc/fstab > > /mnt/home is the directory on the client where the server files should > appear ... If it works as root it seems it should work as user with the > above lines. Obviously I have missed something. > > Help needed, an example of a working line would be great. > > Bob ---- does /mnt/home exist? if not... 'mkdir /mnt/home' can users 'write' to /mnt/home? if not 'chmod 777 /mnt/home' both client and server should be running portmap service... /sbin/service portmap restart chkconfig portmap on Firewalls will be a problem and if you are running a firewall on the NFS server, let us know and we will give you a way to deal with that. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines