Hi All I need help here. Some body familiar with the exportfs

For AIX5.1, i has exported a /ietelerad/TEST 10.197.6.78 for sharing.

At NFS server.
$ showmount -e
export list for CS72:
/ietelerad/TEST 10.197.6.78
$

At NFS Client
mount: 1831-011 access denied for 10.197.6.72:/ieterelad/TEST
mount: 1831-008 giving up on:
10.197.6.72:/ieterelad/TEST
The file access permissions do not allow the specified action.

thank you.

By using smitty..
Is that any other setting i have missed out.

A quick search shows a rather well step-by-step by aldowsary as he approached the same issue.

See Creating shared filesystem

Maybe have a look at the "root access" column in the "smitty mknfsnod" panel. It should have a value of "-2" IIRC.

IF this does not help please paste here the contents of the file /etc/exports and the output of the command "exportfs -va".

Btw.: The directory you exported *is* exported for the client, yes? That means, that "host <client>" issued on the server shows the IP of the client?

I hope this helps.

bakunin

Thank you so much.
Yes. The directory exported at NFS server is exported to the client.
<CGCLPS72:/>exportfs -va
exportfs: 1831-187 re-exported /ietelerad/TEST
<CGCLPS72:/>

Yes, at <host>client,
$ showmount -e 10.197.6.72
export list for 10.197.6.72:
/ietelerad/TEST 10.197.6.78
$

The Anonymous UID [-2]. Any step i missed out here. Thank you.

Try to stop and start the NFS daemons at the client as well as the server:

If this doesn't help either: have a look in /etc/exports - do NOT use the SMIT facility to list exported directories, have a look at the file directly. The reason is, that strange effects can happen if overlapping parts of the filesystem are exported with different attributes, for instance:

/dir exported read-write
/dir/subdir exported read-only

This commonly happens when s NIM servers /etc/exports is manipulated by hand and someone else is using NIM methods (which manipulate this file too).

bakunin