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NFS Share Not Mounting On Debian Client From Centos NFS Server

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Subject	NFS Share Not Mounting On Debian Client From Centos NFS Server
Date	Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:33:10 +0100
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Hello,

I appear to be having some problems with what many of you may consider to 
be a fairly trivial matter (I know I did at first). I have a Centos 6.3 
NFS server that happily hands out shares to other Centos 6.3 NFS clients 
but due to some configuration mistake I've made I can't mount the same 
(one and only) share on a Debian Squeeze NFS client.

I would be most grateful if any kind soul/s would put an end to further 
hair loss and wood-for-the-trees-ness that has consumed much of my 
afternoon today. As an aside, I'm an X-Files fan which is just about to 
become apparent to many.

On the Centos 6.3 x86_64 server in /etc/exports :

/home/pete/     doggett.nrth.lab(rw,no_root_squash)

The NFS-related services running on this server all appear in order in 
that I have rpc.statd, rpc.mountd and rpcbind all correct and present.

On the Debian Squeeze amd64 client I have rpcbind and rpc.statd running. 
I've tried modifying /etc/default/nfs-common on the Debian client to 
include the following line :

NEED_IDMAPD=yes

 .. as I believe the NFS server on the Centos box is running that 
version. (As it turns out, it doesn't matter whether I have that option 
enabled or not, I still cannot browse to the mounted share using 
Nautilus.)

On the Debian Squeeze amd64 client I run this command :

mount -t nfs tooms.nrth.lab:/home/pete /home/pete/serverdocs

There is no error shown and I get an HD icon on my desktop, but if I try 
to navigate into this share using Nautilus, I receive an access denied 
message stating possible reasons for this error as lack of permissions. 
Fair enough, but I can't see what to change.

Despite the above error, I can access the mounted share as root on the 
Debian client and modify files. However, I cannot even change into that 
directory as user 'pete' on the Debian client.

The only possible cause I can think of is UIDs that are different and not 
being mapped. For example, on the server the user 'pete' has a UID and GID 
of 500 whereas on the client the same account has 1000.

Any help or information would be gratefully received.


Regards,

Pete.

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NFS Share Not Mounting On Debian Client From Centos NFS Server Nrth <nrth@invalid.example> - 2012-08-15 17:33 +0100
  Re: NFS Share Not Mounting On Debian Client From Centos NFS Server J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-08-15 19:17 +0000
    Re: NFS Share Not Mounting On Debian Client From Centos NFS Server Nrth <nrth@invalid.example> - 2012-08-15 22:31 +0100

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