Hi Frank, I changed my setup this week, so I could exclude a gateway/firewall problem.
Now my NIS server is running on the machine testbak.gevaert The NFS server is running ont he machine gateway.gevaert On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:46:49AM +0100, Frank Lenaerts wrote: > What's the output of a showmount -e gateway.gevaert? testbak:/var/yp# showmount -e gateway.gevaert Export list for gateway.gevaert: /home @testbakken /ed/nfsroot 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 /ed/debmirror 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 /ed/fai_configdir 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 > Looks ok but I've never seen "fully qualified" hostnames in NIS > context. AFAIK, NIS is "flat" i.e. does not use scoping as in DNS. > > Could you replace testbakken (testbak.gevaert,,) with testbakken > (testbak,,) and retry it? Ok, I did so: (on the nis server:) testbak:~# cat /etc/netgroup lappie (duvel,,) testbak (testbak,,) gateway (gateway,,) ant01 (ant01,,) ant02 (ant02,,) ant03 (ant03,,) testbakken gateway testbak ants ant01 ant02 ant03 faiclients ants testbakken gateway (on the gateway:) gevaert:~# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: nis compat group: nis compat shadow: nis compat hosts: files dns networks: files protocols: db files services: db files ethers: db files rpc: db files netgroup: nis (on the nis server:) testbak:~# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: compat group: compat shadow: compat hosts: files dns networks: files protocols: db files services: db files ethers: db files rpc: db files netgroup: nis Using the program "netgroup" (out of package ng-utils): testbak:~# netgroup -h testbakken testbak gateway gevaert:~# netgroup -h testbakken testbak gateway (Export file on the NFS server (gateway.gevaert)) gevaert:~# cat /etc/exports /ed/debmirror 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro,sync) /ed/fai_configdir 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(async,ro) /ed/nfsroot 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(async,ro,no_root_squash) /home @testbakken(rw,sync) #/home 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(async,rw) This is the same showmount outputs (see before) Running: testbak:~# mount gateway.gevaert:/home /mnt/ mount: gateway.gevaert:/home failed, reason given by server: Permission denied Gives in the NFS server's syslog: Nov 29 15:28:01 gevaert rpc.mountd: refused mount request from 10.0.0.250 for /home (/): no export entry I'm puzzled... Thanks in advance! Echt waar Rudy