People - 

As I forwarded to Ragge, after rebooting the Linux box the NFS mount came
up OK.  I must guess that the nfsd or mountd on the Linux machine was in
some kind of "strange state" which gave me the results I described.

Thank you for your prompt help and advice.

-- Mark


"David Brownlee said . . ."
> 
> 	Have you tried adding -P to the mount command?
> 
> 	(From man mount_nfs)
> 
>      -P      Use a reserved socket port number.  This is useful for mounting
>              servers that require clients to use a reserved port number on the
>              mistaken belief that this makes NFS more secure. (For the rare
>              case where the client has a trusted root account but untrustwor-
>              thy users and the network cables are in secure areas this does
>              help, but for normal desktop clients this does not apply.)
> 
> 	If this fixes it then you might want to consider sending in a
> 	send-pr suggesting adding a comment about this to the NOTES
> 	section to mount_nfs!
> 
> 		David/abs	david@{mono.org,southern.com,mhm-internet.com}
> 
>      Microsoft: Asks you where you want to go. NetBSD gets you there.
> System Manager: Southern Studios Ltd, PO Box 59, London N22 1AR.
>   System Admin: MHM Internet, 14 Barley Mow Passage, Chiswick, London W4 4PH.
>          SysOP: Monochrome, Largest UK Internet BBS - 'telnet mono.org'.
> 
> On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, V. M. Haas (Me) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > People - 
> > 
> > I have (finally) got my uVAXII machine running on kernel v1.2C (Thanks, Ragge!)
> > 
> > The little beastie is equipped with 2 RD54's and I am trying to get a source
> > tree built so I can go on with the next steps.  (IPv6, etc.)  The RD54's 
> > don't have enough collective size to handle the source tree through 
> > compilation.  
> > 
> > I am trying to use the Linux box as an NFS server, and the Vax as its client
> > over an Ethernet.  
> > 
> > When I mount the filesystem remotely, it mounts OK, but gives me "Permission 
> > Denied" whenever I try to access files on the mounted filesystem.
> > 
> > 
> > Configuration: Linux machine 192.168.1.1 (jubal.vmhnet.net)
> > 
> > /etc/exports:
> > 
> > /home2		michael.vmhnet.net(rw,no_root_squash,insecure)
> > 
> > VAX machine 192.168.1.2  (michael.vmhnet.net)
> > 
> > /etc/fstab:
> > 
> > . . . 
> > michael.vmhnet.net:/home2	/usr/src	rw	
>