NFS Mount Permission Denied

[Paul Howarth]

Tim Holmes wrote:
>>On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:50:54PM -0400, Tim Holmes wrote:
>>
>>>Good afternoon
>>>
>>>I was just setting up one of my servers, and ran into a perplexing
>>>problem.
>>>
>>>I edited my /etc/fstab file and added my new mounts ie:
>>>
>>>Srvfs-01:/home		/home			nfs
> 
> hard,intr
> 
>>>
>>>Then restarted the nfs service
>>
>>nfs service needs to run only on the server not the client.
>>
>>>When I type
>>>
>>>mount srvfs-01:/home
>>>
>>>I get mount failed, reason returned by server -- permission denied
>>
>>The mount above should be mount /home.
>>
>>>
>>>I am logged in as root on the box im working on, and im just not
> 
> sure
> 
>>>where to begin trouble shooting this one
>>>
>>>Any insights would be appreciated
>>>
>>>TIM
> 
> [Tim Holmes wrote] 
> Good Morning Folks
> 
> I tried the above suggestions, as far as the mount command syntax, and
> it still returns the same error --  here is the session transcript
> 
> login as: root
> root at 192.168.0.19's password:
> Last login: Thu Apr 14 13:53:56 2005 from mod3teacher.mcaschool.net
> [root at SRVDB-01 root]# mount /home
> mount: srvfs-01:/home failed, reason given by server: Permission denied
> [root at SRVDB-01 root]#
> 
> 
> I hate to admit to confusion, but I am totally lost on this one.

If "/usr/sbin/showmount -e srvfs-01" shows nothing from this particular 
client but does show something from a different client, it's likely to 
be a problem at the client side. Do you have any firewall running on 
this client? Can this client mount any NFS shares from any other server?

Paul.