NFS problem

[Tonatiuh]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 2.

I wanto to mount a NFS filesystem but I get an error:

[root@dev ~]# mount monitor:/ora /sw
mount: monitor:/ora failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

Server which has the NFS origin filesystem has portmap, nfs and nfslock services running.

/etc/exports has the following:
/ora dev(rw,sync)

I ran the exportfs -a after configure /etc/exports.

Any idea about the source of my problem?

[njia_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi

If you did not have the folloiwng entry in your /etc/fstab file
monitor:/ora /sw nfs xxxx

then you need to tell mount command that you are mounting a nfs filesystem.
[root@dev ~]# mount -f nfs monitor:/ora /sw

if you get the same error message try the following.

Login "monitor" the
# showmount -e

then you will see a list of all filesystems being exported.
/ora should be on the list and should be accessible by "dev"

thanks
Nan

[Tonatiuh]

Nop, I would not want to mount the NFS at server start.

My real problem was that the hosts entry for the server that was allowed to acces NFS was wrong. It is running right now.