Automounter problem

[dictum9]

This is on L class running latest 11.23

I set up the auto_mount file correctly but am getting the following when I try to cd to that directory or do ll on it (from the client). Why is this happening? I started nfs.client, nfs.core and nfs.server multiple times to no avail.
The server is showing that the directory is exported with "showmount -e"
Do I need to reboot the (client) box?

# ll /oracle10
/oracle10 unreadable
total 0

[Yang Qin_1 · Accepted solution]

Reboot will not solve a permission problem.

Check the ownership and access settings of /oracle10 on Server side and compare the uid gid on client side.

Check the access option you used in /etc/exports for /oracle10.

If you modify /etc/exports, remember to run "exportfs -a" afterwards.

Yang

[Geoff Wild]

On the export server, did you add the L class server to the /etc/exports file and re-issue an exportsfs -a ?

Can you post the /etc/exports file?

On the L Class, what is in /etc/auto.direct ?

Is AUTOFS=1 in the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file on the L class?

Rgds...Geoff

[dictum9]

The problem turned out to be that one of the filesystem to be exported did not have 'world' read access. I didn't think this could make a difference, but apparently it did. After I did chmod o+read, it became visible.