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From: fn@fractal.math.yale.edu (Francois Normant)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: /etc/exports <-> mount problem
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.014941.19618@cs.yale.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 91 01:49:41 GMT
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In article <1991Jun11.193611.15878@cs.yale.edu> fn@fractal.math.yale.edu (Francois Normant) writes:
>I have 2 RS6000s (one 530, one 930) running AIX 3.1.5., let say foo1 and foo2.
>I tried to set /etc/exports file on foo1 to export /u to foo2.
>
>On foo1
>------
>/etc/exports contains 1 line:
>/u foo2
>and I did 
>exportfs -a
>
>On foo2
>------
>I first checked that foo1 was mountable:
>showmount -e foo1
>export list for foo1:
>/u foo2
>
>Then I created a directory /users/foo1
>and I tried 
>mount foo1:/u /users/foo1
>and here is the result:
> 
>mount foo1:/u /users/foo1
>mount: access denied for foo1:/u
>mount: giving up on:
>	foo1:/u
>Permission denied
>
>
>I tried to change /etc/exports on foo1 in the following ways
>1) /u -access=foo2   		=> permission denied
>2) /u -access=foo2,root=foo2	=> permission denied		
>3) /u -root=foo2		=> ok it worked, but now /u is opened to the world !
>
 
Thanks James you had the good answer !
My nameserver knows foo1 and foo2 as FOO1 and FOO2 (capital letters).
mount seems to  be case sensitive.

I just changed my export file to
/u FOO1

and all is ok now.

Thanks for your cooperation.

-- 
Francois Normant - fn@math.yale.edu
Yale University - Mathematics Department
Box 2155 - Yale Station
New Haven CT 06520