Problems with NFS mount: access denied

[John Bolene]

The only reason I know for this is permissions.

Check the permissions on the mounted directory and the files themselves.

Most NFS mounted files are 777 unless you want them read only.

[Steve Labar]

Check your /etc/exports file and verify the path you are expecting is listed with the permissions you want. Any time you make changes to /etc/exports your must do an exportfs command before they will take effect.

[Matthew Crouse]

Well, none of my posts on this thread have actually made it to the forum. We'll see if this one does.

I have verified (using showmount -e) that the nfs server is running properly and that the filesystems that are exported are the same ones that I am trying to mount. I have also verified that the filesystem is chmod 777. /etc/exports contains one line that reads "/users/hpnp/ - ro,access=hpbld102" (hpbld102 is the client machine I am trying the mount from), and I have done exportfs -a many times. Any other ideas/suggestions?

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Matthew,

Try this link,

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/B1031-90048_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/41-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/41-toc.html&searchterms=Troubleshooting%20NFS%20Services%20&queryid=20011114-153057

Look for "Common Problems with NFS"

Also try this link,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=8eb9d8591a11dd70ff/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000054127069

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Matthew Crouse]

Thanks Sanjay. While neither of those links provided a silver bullet fix to the problem, the second one did give me the idea to try manually exporting the fs with varying options. I found that, interestingly enough, manually exporting it with -o "ro, access=hpbld102" worked, but if I had those options in /etc/exports and ran exportfs -a it wouldn't work. That doesn't make sense to me, but at the very least I found a fix (removing the options from /etc/exports so it just reads '/users/hpnp -') that will allow me to move on, and experiment with what the cause was at my leisure.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Matthew,

Thanks for posting your reply after trying. Have you tried exporting the filesystem using sam. you can select the various options about exporting over there. If nothing resticts, i prefer using sam, so that i don't miss out on the correct format of options and you know what not. Do try exporting the filesystem using sam and let it update /etc/exportfs.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Krishna Prasad]

See if it is exported in /etc/exports

Is the NFS Services running ...check in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf and make sure they are started up automatically.

Also does the directory that you want to mount on exists? If so check the permissions on it.