Re: [SLE] NFS mounting exported subdirectory problem

Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:29:00 -0600 From: Jeffrey Taylor Message-ID: <20001215092900.K12241@elendil.bearhouse.lan> Subject: Re: [SLE] NFS mounting exported subdirectory problem I suspect you have to add entries for the subdirectories on the server. I am using the opposite situation, a Linux NFS server and a Solaris NFS client. I tried mounting a filesystem read-only that was exported read-write. No good. It had to be mounted read-write. The "sensible" subsetting of permissions did not work. An exact match was required. HTH, Jeffrey Quoting Katherine E. Price :

I am having a problem mounting a subdirectory of an NFS exported filesystem on a SuSE 7.0 installation. I have a set of home directories residing in the /export/home filesystem on a Solaris box (bear). I can mount the entire home filesystem without a problem on my Linux box (seal):

bash-2.04# ls -F /home kprice/

bash-2.04# mount -t nfs bear:/export/home /home

bash-2.04# su kprice $ ls -F /home ben/ intranet/ kprice/ mikew/ prioux/ sadams/

bash-2.04# mount ... bear:/export/home on /home type nfs (rw,addr=10.2.2.33)

It is my understanding that a subdirectory of an exported filesystem can also be mounted, but I am unable to mount a subdirectory of the exported home filesystem:

bash-2.04# umount /home bash-2.04# ls -F /home kprice/

bash-2.04# mount -t nfs bear:/export/home/kprice /home/kprice mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on bear:/export/home/kprice, or too many mounted file systems

The following messages were output to the syslog by the second mount command:

Dec 14 19:35:57 seal kernel: call_verify: server requires stronger authentication. Dec 14 19:35:57 seal kernel: call_verify: unknown auth error: 5 Dec 14 19:35:57 seal kernel: nfs_read_super: get root fattr failed

At any rate, I have home filesystems residing on a couple of servers, and thus I do not want to mount a particular server's home filesystem as /home on my linux box. Instead, I would like to selectively mount individual users' home directories from multiple file servers.

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Katherine Price

-- Katherine Price kprice@pt.com

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