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Old 02-25-2008
Power NFS Mount: Permission Denied
Hi,
- I have two solaris 10 servers. One is running nfs server (let's call it server-1) and has a share set through /etc/dfs/dfstab file:

share -F nfs /opt/SHARE (where SHARE directory contains sub-items that I want to share)

- On server-1, I have started the nfs server service and have verified that mountd is running through 'svcs -a | grep nfs/server' and 'ps -ef | grep mountd'

- On the client server (let's call it server-2), I have set the /etc/vfstab as follows:

server-1:/opt/SHARE - /opt/SHARE nfs - yes - (where local shared directory is also /opt/SHARE)

- I have verified that the nfs client services is running through 'svcs -a | grep nfs/client' on server-2
- I have also set NFS_CLIENT_VERSMAX=3 in /etc/default/nfs file.

- I have verified that the directory /opt/SHARE on both server-1 and server-2 have rwx access for all users.

- When I run 'mount server-1:/opt/SHARE /opt/SHARE' I get the following error:

nfs mount: server-1:/opt/SHARE: Permission denied

- NOTE: server-1 and server-2 are psudonoms and they can ssh/scp/ping each other no problem.

ANY HELP would be much appreciated, thanks.

Jackola
Last edited by jackola; 02-26-2008 at 01:25 PM..
# 2  
Old 02-25-2008
The NFS server must be able to reverse-resolve the client IP address. That is, if your client is "10.3.41.22" then you chould be able to run "host 10.3.41.22" on the NFS server and get a name back.
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Old 02-26-2008
Power
Thanks for the suggestion, however, the NFS server and client can access each other without problems. When I do the 'host x.x.x.x' I get the host name back, when I do 'host server-2' from server-1 (which is the NFS server), I get the correct IP back. The same can be said reversely from the client server (server-2).

I don't know why there is the permission problem as I tested scp from both servers to the other server and into the correct directory without problems.

Does anyone know whether the shared directory needs to be owned by another user other than root? (but I did give the directory a recursive chmod to 777 just for testing purposes).

Furthermore, does anyone know whether I need to identify the NFS client (server-2) in any of the configurations on the NFS server (server-1)?
 
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