[SOLVED] mount.nfs4: access denied by server

Question

Hi folks. I seem to be having a bit of a problem getting nfs4 to work. I am trying to mount a share from alpha (my fileserver) onto charlie (my workstation). Both of these are new Arch systems and I haven't had any nfs working yet, although I have with other distros on the same hardware.
Fileserver (alpha) config:
# /etc/exports
/files 192.164.1.0/24(rw,sync,fsid=0,no_subtree_check)
# /etc/hosts.allow
sshd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
nfsd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
rpcbind: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
mountd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
idmapd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
statd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
[General]
Verbosity = 3
Pipefs-Directory = /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
Domain = localdomain
[Mapping]
Nobody-User = nobody
Nobody-Group = nobody
[Translation]
Method = nsswitch
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda6 /var ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda7 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda8 /files ext3 defaults 0 1
rpc_pipefs /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs defaults 0 0
nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs rpcbind nfs-common nfs-server hal @alsa @crond @openntpd @sshd)
[root@alpha ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 19228276 879492 17372036 5% /
none 507792 140 507652 1% /dev
none 507792 0 507792 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 93307 15887 72603 18% /boot
/dev/sda6 19228276 372632 17878896 3% /var
/dev/sda7 19228276 176224 18075304 1% /home
/dev/sda8 902688436 204872 856629640 1% /files
[root@alpha ~]#
Workstation (charlie) config:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
UUID=437982b2-5c84-4f53-954d-cf43f8b4e707 / ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=97d79d76-357a-4f4e-8513-f181bff6af62 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=d8525095-9b97-4439-932f-8f4e0236cce1 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=ffba933b-af93-407c-b1b8-69d1cc5be146 swap swap defaults 0 0
rpc_pipefs /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs defaults 0 0
alpha:/ /files nfs4 defaults 0 0
[General]
Verbosity = 3
Pipefs-Directory = /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
Domain = localdomain
[Mapping]
Nobody-User = nobody
Nobody-Group = nobody
[Translation]
Method = nsswitch
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network crond alsa hal fam rpcbind nfs-common netfs)
[root@charlie ~]# mount -a
mount.nfs4: access denied by server while mounting alpha:/
[root@charlie ~]#
This happens even after both systems are rebooted. Can anyone spot what I am missing?
Thanks for looking.
Last edited by dgregory46 (2009-10-21 01:04:09)

Answer 1

Now I really feel stupid. A little proofreading would have saved me a big headache. In /etc/exports I was exporting to 192.164.1.0/24 while my network is the more standard 192.168.1.0/24.
It works fine now, although I did take phaul's suggestion and added my main share "inside" the nfs4 root.