nis nfs netgroup problem

[Frank Lenaerts]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 11:03:02AM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Hello,

Hi,

> NFS works when I export a directory on the server like this:
> /home       10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync)
> 
> However when I want to use a netgroup, it doesn't work:
> /home   @testbakken(async,rw,no_root_squash)

I suppose you re-exported after this change?

> testbak:~# mount gateway.gevaert:/home /home
> mount: gateway.gevaert:/home failed, reason given by server: Permission denied
> 
> syslog reports:
> Nov 27 10:52:16 gevaert rpc.mountd: refused mount request from 10.0.0.250 for /home (/): no export entry

What's the output of a showmount -e gateway.gevaert?

> This is the entry in /etc/exports
> /home   @testbakken(async,rw,no_root_squash)
> 
> and this is the contents of /etc/netgroup
> lappie   (duvel.gevaert,,)
> testbakken (testbak.gevaert,,)
> 
> ant01  (ant01.gevaert,,)
> ant02  (ant02.gevaert,,)
> ant03  (ant03.gevaert,,)
> 
> ants ant01 ant02 ant03
> faiclients ants testbakken

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?

> Rudy

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