Subject: Re: mountd wierdnesses
To: David Jones <dej@inode.org>
From: Dustin Sallings <dustin@mail.west.spy.net>
List: current-users
Date: 09/25/1997 22:53:46
What does showmount tell you? Does it show it as being properly
exported? Anything weird in the logs? All your nfs server services
starting?
> Anybody see this? ruff is SunOS 4.1.4, endplay is NetBSD-1.2G
>
> reboot endplay
>
> Then, on ruff:
>
> > elm
> Can't open folder '/usr/spool/mail/dej' for reading!
> > su
> Password:
> ruff# mount -vat nfs
> mount: access denied for endplay:/work
> mount: giving up on:
> /work
> mount: access denied for endplay:/spool
> mount: giving up on:
> /spool
>
> OK, on endplay:
>
> kill -1 `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`
>
> Back to ruff:
>
> ruff# !!
> mount -vat nfs
> endplay:/work mounted on /work
> endplay:/spool mounted on /spool
> ruff# exit
>
> at which point I can read my mail...
>
> So: for some reason, when mountd starts, it doesn't want to grant access to
> anything. But, after HUPing it, everything's fine. Also wierd: shouldn't
> an NFS server come up and be available to clients without them needing
> to re-mount?
>
> [BTW, for bridge players: my firewall is squeeze, and the X terminal is
> finesse. ]