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@ 2003-03-13 13:43 ` Dave Gilbert (Home)
  2003-03-14  2:32   ` Neil Brown
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dave Gilbert (Home) @ 2003-03-13 13:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: neilb, nfs

Neil Brown wrote thus:

    that I wrote:
>>Sometimes the client will get a permission denied on attempting to mount
>>from the server even though it managed it a few hours earlier with no
>>change to config of the server.
>>
>>Restarting the nfs server gives a line of the form:
>>
>>clienthostname: Invalid argument

> What does your /etc/exports file look like?  Does it have both host
> names and IP addresses?  
> Do you export both a directory and an ancestor of that directory on
> the same filesystem?
> 
> Both of these can cause this sort of problem.

Thank you!  It was exporting both a directory and an ancestor.
Can we have something which screams/shouts/warns/rejects this
rather than failing in an evil and confusing way?

(oh and add it to the NFS FAQ)

> What version of nfs-utils is in SuSE 8.1?
> 
>  showmount -v

showmount for nfs-utils 0.3.3

Dave



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* Re: of rmtab and 'Invalid argument' and permission denied]
  2003-03-13 13:43 ` of rmtab and 'Invalid argument' and permission denied] Dave Gilbert (Home)
@ 2003-03-14  2:32   ` Neil Brown
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Neil Brown @ 2003-03-14  2:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dave Gilbert (Home); +Cc: nfs

On Thursday March 13, gilbertd@treblig.org wrote:
> Neil Brown wrote thus:
> 
>     that I wrote:
> >>Sometimes the client will get a permission denied on attempting to mount
> >>from the server even though it managed it a few hours earlier with no
> >>change to config of the server.
> >>
> >>Restarting the nfs server gives a line of the form:
> >>
> >>clienthostname: Invalid argument
> 
> > What does your /etc/exports file look like?  Does it have both host
> > names and IP addresses?  
> > Do you export both a directory and an ancestor of that directory on
> > the same filesystem?
> > 
> > Both of these can cause this sort of problem.
> 
> Thank you!  It was exporting both a directory and an ancestor.
> Can we have something which screams/shouts/warns/rejects this
> rather than failing in an evil and confusing way?

It would be nice.... but I'm currently more interested in getting
nfs-utils to support the new interfaces in 2.5...

> 
> (oh and add it to the NFS FAQ)

Isn't it there??? Should be added then.

> 
> > What version of nfs-utils is in SuSE 8.1?
> > 
> >  showmount -v
> 
> showmount for nfs-utils 0.3.3

Thats getting a bit old. 1.0 have been out for a while and fixed the
problem I hinted related to host-names and IP addresses in the same
/etc/exports file.

NeilBrown


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