[ale] NFS as a hair-loss enhancer

[Joe Knapka]

I don't know what I did, but suddenly it works. Any insight
into what might have been the problem is still appreciated.

-- Joe

Joe Knapka wrote:

> 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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