Mount nfs drive as other user

[mrbrown79]

Hi,

This is not a particular Fedora issue, but I take the chance

How can I mount a network (nfs) drive (on a RHEL4 machine) from my FC11, but as another user.

E.g. I would like to mount the folder /home/userA on the network drive. But my local username is userB. Hence I don't seem to have access to mount the drive.

sudo mount -t nfs eda4:/home/userA /mnt/eda4 gives the message: "mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting (null)"

I have put a broadcast address in /etc/exports and started an nfs daemon on the remote server.

Best regards,
Kenneth

[Gödel]

There could be other reasons why it's failing rather than a permissions problem eg firewall, selinux.

Do you have any messages in the /var/log/secure log or messages log on either machine that show anything relevant?

[mrbrown79]

Originally Posted by Gödel

There could be other reasons why it's failing rather than a permissions problem eg firewall, selinux.

Do you have any messages in the /var/log/secure log or messages log on either machine that show anything relevant?

Not really. On the remote machine, the most interesting part is in /var/log/messages:
Nov 19 10:55:29 <hostname> mountd[29419]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.100.73:xxx for /home/userA (/home/userA).

BTW, the content of /etc/exports is:
/home/userA 192.168.100.0/24(rw)

Should I write any user arguments here?

[Gödel]

try adding no_root_squash to the arguments, (rw,no_root_squash)