[ale] NFS as a hair-loss enhancer

[Joe Knapka]

Hi, everyone,

I know I'm missing something obvious; hopefully the act of
sending this email and exposing my ignorance will immediately
cause the veil to be drawn from my eyes...

I'm trying to install Slackware onto a machine via NFS. My problem
is that no matter what I do, my NFS server refuses permission to
the client. The contents of hosts.allow and hosts.deny are completely
irrelevant, it seems; rpc.mountd always just says:

<Some stuff about being unable to resolve the client host name,
which is curious since nslookup resolves it just fine>
Blocked attempt of <client address> to mount /export

and the client says

mount: whyme:/export failed. Reason given by server: Permission denied

/export is exported to my local net in /etc/exports, exporfs has been
run, and (at present) hosts.deny is empty and hosts.allow says:

# It's not obvious whether the "rpc." prefix is necessary...
portmap: ALL
rpc.portmap: ALL
mountd: ALL
rpc.mountd: ALL

This behavior occurs even if rpc.mountd is started in
"promiscuous" mode.
I have tried every conceivable combination of permissions in
hosts.allow and hosts.deny.
I have tried mounting from different machines, including the
NFS server itself, always with the same exact results. The
NFS HOWTO was unhelpful. Can anyone spare a clue?

Thanks,

-- Joe Knapka
(now relocated from west GA to El Paso, TX)


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