Comments on: NFS Help

By: dany

dany — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:29:01 +0000

hi guys, i’m having a similar issue. i need to have the share in mixed mode so that it can be access through cifs and nfs. i can access it through cifs no prob. i can mount it using nfs but can’t do anything else. permission denied. can anyone help?

By: athreya

athreya — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:23 +0000

I did everything except looking at the Qtree type. This Blog directed me in the Proper direction. What a fool I was!!!

Thanks a million

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:51:10 +0000

I found that when I looked at my qtree as well and changed it to unix, that the same problem you had described above resolved itself.

I think with your MAC, you have to either do the work as root which is a common uid of 1 and ensure that root=mac’s ip, you need a common set of uid/gid to do the work on these net apps

The exportfs -c really helped me, it returned the following (note, this is when my qtree was set to mixed)

mofs011> exportfs -c 172.xxx.xxx.xxx /vol/hds rw sys
exportfs: 172.xxx.xxx.xxx does not have rw access to /vol/hds (No access cache entry, try again)
exportfs: 172.xxx.xxx.xxx has rw access to /vol/hds
mofs011> exportfs -c 172.xxx.xxx.xxx /vol/hds root sys
exportfs: 172.xxx.xxx.xxx does not have root access to /vol/hds (No access cache entry, try again)
exportfs: 172.xxx.xxx.xxx has root access to /vol/hds

I reran it again now and I get:
exportfs: 172.xxx.xxx.xxx has root access to /vol/hds

By: scottmcd

scottmcd — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:43:44 +0000

Great thanks Scott,

i did a qtree from the command line and my volume /vol/mrkt is set to unix. also can you tell me how you mounted the nfs volume on your mb, command, Finder, etc..

Thanks,

ScottMcD

By: slowe

slowe — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:49:58 +0000

ScottMcD,

I did get it fixed. I believe–and I could be wrong–that the issue had something to do with the fact that the Qtree at the root of the volume was set to Mixed security style and needed to be changed to either UNIX or NTFS. I can’t recall which way I changed it; I’ll check when I get in the office tomorrow and post another comment with the information.

By: scottmcd

scottmcd — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:41:43 +0000

Scott I have this exact problem with my MB Pro and our new netapp and my DataONTAP sim. did you every find a solution for this problem?

its drivin me nuts..

thanks,

By: Dmitry Sorokin

Dmitry Sorokin — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:04:52 +0000

Another thing to try:
/vol/fvol_vmdata -sec=sys,rw=10.16.2.149,root=10.16.2.149,ro,anon=0

best regards.

By: Dmitry Sorokin

Dmitry Sorokin — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:01:08 +0000

Another note:
NFS is the best you can get for VMware datastores.
Tons of benefits, and almost no cons (Especially with WAFL from NetApp of ZFS from SUN).
For example see this discussion thread:
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=51698&start=0&tstart=0

best regards.

By: Dmitry Sorokin

Dmitry Sorokin — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:57:20 +0000

>> OK, hereâ€™s the /etc/exports line that is currently in effect:
>> /vol/fvol_vmdata -sec=sys,ro,rw=10.16.2.149,root=10.16.2.149

try this:
/vol/fvol_vmdata -sec=sys,rw=10.16.2.149,root=10.16.2.149,ro

Best regards.

By: james

james — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:13:10 +0000

Scott,

It not that the root account isn’t enabled you just need to jump though hoops to run processes as root.

ps -auxww | grep root |wc -l

Will show a number of processes running as root, 52 on my mac as this instant.