Neil Brown wrote thus:
that I wrote:
>>Sometimes the client will get a permission denied on attempting to mount
>>from the server even though it managed it a few hours earlier with no
>>change to config of the server.
>>
>>Restarting the nfs server gives a line of the form:
>>
>>clienthostname: Invalid argument
> What does your /etc/exports file look like? Does it have both host
> names and IP addresses?
> Do you export both a directory and an ancestor of that directory on
> the same filesystem?
>
> Both of these can cause this sort of problem.
Thank you! It was exporting both a directory and an ancestor.
Can we have something which screams/shouts/warns/rejects this
rather than failing in an evil and confusing way?
(oh and add it to the NFS FAQ)
> What version of nfs-utils is in SuSE 8.1?
>
> showmount -v
showmount for nfs-utils 0.3.3
Dave
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