Pass through authentication with nfs

[trevorh13]

I am sharing a folder on Redhat 7.1 via NFS. When a remote system tries to connect they are unable to but the local system can connect to its own share across a network. It seems to be authentication that is causing the problem. I have tried making a user account on the remote system that matches the one on the local system in the hope that pass through authentication work work but it doesnt. I have been unable to find any information about sending the login credentials as part of the mount nfs command syntax.

Hope help would as always be greatly appreciated.


Trevor

 

[danielhozac]

AFAIK, NFS doesn't use usernames nor passwords. It merely looks at the hostname/IP address of the remote system to see if it's allowed to connect. What does the NFS server's

/var/log/messages

say?

//Daniel

 

[trevorh13]

Hi Daniel,

Many thanks for your response. It turns out that the book I was working from had neglected to mention that you need to configure etc/hosts.allow to permit portmapper traffic into the system.