Thursday, February 19, 2009

NFS issue

The issue:
An existing NFS system was failing client connections.


On the client:
mount failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

On the server (Fedora Core 3):
rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from

The solution was to add the following to /etc/fstab
nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd auto,defaults 0 0
and remount it by
mount -a