[NCLUG] NFS mount problem

[John L. Bass]

John Whelan <whelanj at eeng.dcu.ie> writes:
> In May 2001 you posted a problem you were having with mounting nfs when you use
> the @netgroup entry in the /etc/exports file. Your posting is shown below.
> I have the exact same problem, i.e. I am getting Permission denied on clients
> who are present in the netgroup and hence should be able to mount the exported
> file system. On the export host (Intel box) I am running  Suse 8.1 and trying to
> mount the filesystem on a sparc 20 running Solaris 2.5.1.

In many recient distributions you also have to make sure that NFS/Portmap is not
blocked by hosts.deny and/or enabled in host.allow AND that the firewall filter
rules in ipchains/iptables allow access.

John