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Date:      Tue, 4 Jan 2011 08:32:28 -0800
From:      Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
To:        Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard@gmail.com>
Cc:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Marek Salwerowicz <marek_sal@wp.pl>, Maciej Milewski <milu@dat.pl>
Subject:   Re: NFSv4 - how to set up at FreeBSD 8.1 ?
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On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> On 4 January 2011 10:50, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> After reading this thread, I tried NFSv4 today..
>
> Whenever I tried to mount from a linux client, I get:
> =C2=A0mount -o vers=3D4 server4:/pool/backup/sites/m /mnt
> NFS compound failed for server server4: error 7 (RPC: Authentication erro=
r)
> NFS compound failed for server server4: error 7 (RPC: Authentication erro=
r)
> NFS compound failed for server server4: error 7 (RPC: Authentication erro=
r)
> NFS compound failed for server server4: error 7 (RPC: Authentication erro=
r)
> NFS compound failed for server server4: error 7 (RPC: Authentication erro=
r)
> NFS compound failed for server server4: error 7 (RPC: Authentication erro=
r)
> nfs mount: mount: /mnt: Permission denied
>
> with NFS v3 it mounts just fine
>
> any ideas?

NFSv4 mounts are relative to the filesystem being exported.  NFSv3
mounts are absolute paths on the server.

IOW, if you export /pool/backup/sites/m/ on the server, then the mount
line on the client is just:
  mount -o vers=3D4 server4:/ /mnt

If you export / on the server, then the mount line on the client would be:
  mount -o vers=3D4 server4:/pool/backup/sites/m/ /mnt

This tripped me up when I tried converting my NFSv3 setup at home to NFSv4.


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Freddie Cash
fjwcash@gmail.com



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