[ale] NFS as a hair-loss enhancer

[Jared Lyvers]

I have always edited the following files in order to allow my nfs to work.
## needed to tell system what to export
/etc/exports
	/dir/export	mysystem(rw)

## needed to tell system what the system is ( NFS will not work here)
/etc/hosts
	192.168.1.2  mysystem.foo.bar	mysystem

## needed to tell system who is allowed to export
/etc/hosts.allow
	portmap:	  192.168.1.2:255.255.255.0

Hope this helps

<<--start snipit--
#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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Do, or do not.  There is no try.  --Yoda

Jared Lyvers
System Administrator
Lewis Communications | Birmingham
205.980.0774 x3047
http://www.lewiscommunications.com/employees/jaredlyvers

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