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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:55:28 +0000
From:      Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
To:        Richard Krushelnitskiy <r.krushelnitskiy@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with mounting NFS share located on a Linux machine
Message-ID:  <45E1A360.8000103@unsane.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <8f5844640702241621m47c49f3bt93d2439700270a05@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <8f5844640702241621m47c49f3bt93d2439700270a05@mail.gmail.com>

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Richard Krushelnitskiy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Linux machine which acts as a NFS server and I'm trying to
> mount the share on FreeBSD. While the mount command succeeds and I see
> no errors and Linux doesn't show anything unusual in the logs, when I
> try to list the files in the mounted directory, none show up. Doing
> 'df' on both machines reports the same size/usage/free numbers for the
> partition. I'm lost as to how to further analyze the problem.
>
> Contents of /etc/exports on the Linux system (galadriel):
> ------------------
> # /etc/exports: NFS file systems being exported.  See exports(5).
>
> /home 192.168.1.100(rw,sync)
> ------------------
>
> [*] 192.168.1.100 refers to the FreeBSD machine (elrond).
>
> ------------------
> root@elrond ~ # showmount -e galadriel
> Exports list on galadriel:
> /home                              elrond.rivendell.lan
> ------------------
> root@elrond ~ 0# mount_nfs galadriel:/home /mnt/linux_home
> root@elrond ~ 0# df
> Filesystem      1K-blocks     Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> [other FreeBSD mounts]
> galadriel:/home  10321208   131276 9665644     1%    /mnt/linux_home
> ------------------
> galadriel ~ # df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> [other Linux mounts]
> /dev/hda8             10321208    131276   9665644   2% /home
> ------------------
> galadriel ~ # tail /var/log/messages
> Feb 24 19:13:33 galadriel rpc.mountd: export request from 192.168.1.100
> Feb 24 19:14:30 galadriel rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
> elrond.rivendell.lan:670 for /home (/home)
> ------------------
>
> Hope these outputs help :)
Just a guess but depending on the permissions of the directories, you 
may need to turn off 'root_squash' or set it to a user with read 
permissions, the linux man page for exports covers the linux syntax for 
this.

Vince

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