Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!wugate!chris
From: chris@wugate.wustl.edu (Chris Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Need help on NFS mount command
Keywords: nfs access denied
Message-ID: <235@wugate.wustl.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 89 19:36:26 GMT
References: <5200001@hpldsla.HP.COM> <5200002@hpldsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: chris@wugate.wustl.edu.UUCP (Chris Myers)
Organization: Washington University (St. Louis)
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In article <5200002@hpldsla.HP.COM> manoj@hpldsla.HP.COM (Manoj Joshi) writes:
>[...]
>Now when I try to mount the directory on the remote host, by
>typing:
> 
>    /etc/mount host1:/users/manoj /users/manoj/nfs_test
>
>I get a new error:
>
>    mount: access denied for host1:/users/manoj 
>
>The host1's /etc/exports file has the entry
>
>/users/manoj    
>[...]

Did you restart mountd after adding the /users/manoj entry to /etc/exports?
Mountd caches the contents of the /etc/exports file when it is started up and
will not notice that you added something to the export list...

Chris Myers
Software Engineer
Office of the Network Coordinator
Washington University (St. Louis, MO)

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