* Re: of rmtab and 'Invalid argument' and permission denied]
[not found] <20030309213151.GK747@gallifrey>
@ 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
-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open!
Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and
the chance of winning an Apple iPod:
http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en
_______________________________________________
NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread* 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
-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open!
Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and
the chance of winning an Apple iPod:
http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en
_______________________________________________
NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2003-03-14 2:33 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
[not found] <20030309213151.GK747@gallifrey>
2003-03-13 13:43 ` of rmtab and 'Invalid argument' and permission denied] Dave Gilbert (Home)
2003-03-14 2:32 ` Neil Brown
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.