[Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

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Op maandag 1 oktober 2012 20:43:26 schreef Anne Wilson:
> On 01/10/12 20:16, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> Argh!! re-reading those lines, it's giving the IP address
> >> instead of the mount point.
> > 
> > Garbage.  Ignore.
> > 
> > I've obviously stared at this too long and I'm not making any
> > sense at all now.
> 
> For a moment I thought I had cracked it.  I hand edited the lines,
> took out the '/export' since that seemed to be handled as yet another
> export, took out the IP address (my attempts in the GUI at confining
> it to the LAN) and put '*' in front of the bracketed options.
> 
> Back on the laptop 'mount -t nfs 192.168.0.40:/ /mnt/borg2_Data1'
> gives to errors - and I was just about to cheer, when I realised that
> Dolphin still couldn't see any files.  There are no error messages or
> anything at first, then the popup box told me that /mnt/borg2_Data1
> was either busy or already mounted (can't remember the exact words).
> 
> That was quickly replaced by "An error occurred while accessing 'home
> on 192.168.0.40', the system responded: mount.nfs: access denied by
> server while mounting 192.168.0.40:/home
> 
> I edited the lines to
> 
> [root at tosh ~]# mount -t nfs 192.168.0.40:/Data1 /mnt/borg2_Data1
> [root at tosh ~]# mount -t nfs 192.168.0.40:/home/anne /mnt/borg2_home
> 
> but get the same errors.
> 
> Hah! suddenly I have /home/anne/ on 192.168.0.40 and it's readable.
> 
> That's obviously an improvement, but I still need the Data1 directory
> tree.  Root can umount it.  It shows every sign of being mounted, yet
> I can't read any of it.  All the data there is owned anne:users so it
> shouldn't be a permissions issue.

user ids and names still need to be the same on both systems. (or somehow 
mapped; which is what v4 has more than v3; but i never used v4)

also, root typically has no access to nfs exports, you need to be regular 
user, (unless you specify the root_no_squash options, or similar)