[Scottish] anybody good with nfs?

[Paul Millar]

Good to hear you've fixed it :) NFS can be quite cryptic at times.

BTW, have you investigated NFS over TCP?  For short-hop (intra-LAN)
connections it shouldn't make a difference, but for multi-hop it might be
better ...

All the best,

Paul.

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Colin McKinnon wrote:
> Paul Millar wrote:
> 
> >What's in /var/log/messages on the server (I guess the client says
> >"permission denied").  The server usually says why its denied a request.
> >
> >  
> >
> Thanks Paul. I think I've solved it - although the systems were happy to 
> negotiate most file operations across nfs without the 'insecure' option 
> on the exports (server), it was only after I added this that they would 
> agree on locking. It was the message in the logs (after I'd set some 
> more liberal logging options) that pointed me in the right direction - 
> "nfsd: request from insecure port (7e000032:49213)!".
> 
> Colin
> 
> 
> 
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