Trouble with NFS

[dargx001]

I have been trying to set up NFS so that I can backup the home directory on my laptop to my server. I have enabled NFS on my server and edited the export file to look like this:

/home/Cody      192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw)

I have also edited my /etc/host.allow file to look like this:

portmap: 192.168.1.101
lockd: 192.168.1101
rquotad: 192.168.1.101
mountd: 192.168.1.101
statd: 192.168.1.101

When I try to mount the /home/Cody folder on my server to my laptop I get this error though

[Nick@Cody-Laptop ~]$ sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.1.136:/home/Cody /rdir/Cody
mount.nfs: access is denied by server while mounting 192.168.1.136:/home/Cody

I have done chmod 746 on the directories that I am both trying to mount and mount to. Also suspecting it is my firewall I tried turning it off, and still no luck. I've tried looking up the answer on google, but I had no useful results.

[meton_magis]

on your server, cd to /var/log and try to find where your NFS file logs (if you dont see anything that is obviously nfs, try doing `egrep -i "nfs" /path/to/log` to see if a file might have the nfs log in there. Your log files on your server are going to be the best bet as to why something failed. If everything looks good, check the logs on your client.

[matonb]

The user names are different (what actually matters to nfs is the uid though) and your permissions 746 would not allow "other" to open / enter the directory /home/Cody as the execute bit isn't set. You could try chmoding it to 747...

Although it's not what I would recommend. You would be better off matching your laptop user and server user id's and keeping stricter permissions on your home directory.