On May 19,  9:36am, Alex McLintock wrote:
> Subject: NFS mount permission denied
> Does this sound like a problem with RiscBSD or is it my unix knowledge and or
> Linux box?
>
>
> I am trying to mount an NFS directory which resides on my Linux box.
> I have the network up and running. I have used xhost on the linux box to
allow
> access to the riscpc. I have made sure that the correct entry is in
/etc/exports
> (I think).
>
> I used /usr/local/sbin/rcm to say that I want to mount an NFS drive. It seems
to
> be ok. I can even run a "mount -a" without any error messages.
>
> However when I try doing an ls on the mountpoint I get a "permission denied"
> error. (Yes I did a "chmod a+rwx" on both mounted directory and the mount
> point).

This sounds like you may be running NFS on an insecure port on the Linux box
with RiscBSD configured to reject insecure NFS. I don't know enough about Linux
to know how to tell nfs to run on a secure port. It should be in one of the nfs
man pages though.

Cheers

Rob