[wplug] Writing to a NFS mount

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Thursday 11 September 2003 23:20, Gentgeen wrote:
> A little while ago, I set up a NFS share on my laptop.  I used my
> desktop machine to edit some of the file, then forgot to unmount when
> I was done.  I then had to do a forced unmount the next day when I
> realized my mistake.
>
> The problem is now I can mount the laptop drive, but I can not write
> to it anymore.  I can mount, browse, and read the laptop drive, just
> not write to it.  I can't remember all the things I had to do to set
> it up, so I am having some trouble with troubleshooting the problem. 
> I also can't find the webpage that I used to help set it up (I
> thought I bookmarked it, but guess not)
>
> My desktop box is a Redhat 7.2 system at 192.168.0.2.
> The fstab line is:
>    192.168.0.4:/home/kevin /mnt/littlebox		nfs
> rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,noauto,user 0 0
<snip>
> ------------------------------------------
> My laptop is a Debian Woody 3.0 system at 192.168.0.4
> The hosts.allow file has:
>    portmap:	192.168.0.3
>    lockd:	192.168.0.3
>    rquotad:	192.168.0.3
>    mountd:	192.168.0.3
>    statd:	192.168.0.3
>
> The hosts.deny file has:
>    portmap:ALL
>    lockd:ALL
>    rquotad:ALL
>    mountd:ALL
>    statd:ALL
>
> The exports file has:
>    /home/kevin 192.168.0.3(rw)

Well, your client is at 192.168.0.2, but you're exporting the filesystem 
from Debian to 192.168.0.3. I guess that's just a typo in your email, 
since in that case you shouldn't be able to mount it at all.

Try forcing the server to re-read its exports with
# exportfs -r -v 

Also, you might want to add the option rw to your client fstab entry.

If that doesn't help it, monitor your logs with 
# tail -f /var/log/messages 
on the server, the moment you try to mount your NFS share - that should 
give you more clues about what's happening.

-A
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