NFS Mount Linux from AIX -> vmount: Permission denied

[Mark Baklarz]

In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.971009...@nil.fut.es>,
Jaume Grau <j...@tinet.fut.es> wrote:

>I'm trying to mount a Linux file system from and AIX 4.2.box. Both the
>server and client configuration files are ok. But, when I execute the
>mount command for AIX box, It dosen't work.
>
>The output mount command is:
>
># mount foo:/users /mnt
>mount: giving up on:
> foo:/users
>vmount: Permission denied
>
>It works succesfully from AIX3 2. clients, and from all other UNIX systems
>that I tried (HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, ...)
>
>Any hint?

I got your e-mail. I don't know if our solution relates to you, but
using "mount -o proto=tcp $HOST:/$MOUNTPOINT" got disk mounts working
^^^^^^^^^
with port checking turned on. A colleague came up with the option.

I've also seen permission problems in Solaris when the whole domainized
hostname wasn't used. (i.e. "foo.usc.edu" instead of just "foo")

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Mark Baklarz - USC University of Southern California INTERNET:bak...@usc.edu
"Bucky" UCS University Computing Services
CIS Unix Systems Group
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