On Wed, 16 Jun 2021, Patrick Goetz wrote: > Sadly, it took me a couple of days to track this down. The /etc/netgroup > file I'm using works perfectly on another NFS server (Ubuntu 18.04) in > production, so this wasn't an immediate suspicion. However, if I use > this /etc/exports: > > /srv/nfs @cryo_em(rw,sync,fsid=0,crossmnt,no_subtree_check) > /srv/nfs/cryosparc @cryo_em(rw,sync,fsid=2,crossmnt,no_subtree_check) > > Client mounts fail: > > > root@javelina:~# mount -vvvt nfs4 cerebro:/cryosparc /cryosparc > mount.nfs4: timeout set for Tue Jun 15 11:53:22 2021 > mount.nfs4: trying text-based options > 'vers=4.2,addr=128.xx.xx.xxx,clientaddr=129.xxx.xxx.xx' > mount.nfs4: mount(2): Permission denied > mount.nfs4: access denied by server while mounting cerebro:/cryosparc > > and if I switch to specifying the host explicitly: > > /srv/nfs javelina.my.domain(rw,sync,fsid=0,crossmnt,no_subtree_check) > > /srv/nfs/cryosparc > javelina.mydomain(rw,sync,fsid=2,crossmnt,no_subtree_check) > > the mount just works. The tcpdump error message isn't terribly helpful > here: > > 11:14:02.856094 IP cerebro.my.domain.nfs > javelina.my.domain.741: Flags > [.], ack 281, win 507, options [nop,nop,TS val 791638255 ecr > 2576087678], length 0 > 11:14:02.856178 IP cerebro.my.domain.nfs > javelina.my.domain.741: Flags > [P.], seq 1:25, ack 281, win 507, options [nop,nop,TS val 791638255 ecr > 2576087678], length 24: NFS reply xid 2752089303 reply ERR 20: Auth > Bogus Credentials (seal broken) > > but after figuring out the cause of the problem, I did find a > corroborating RHEL error report (which you'll need a RHEL account to > access): > > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3563601 > > I couldn't figure out how to determine the exact version of the NFS > server that ships with Ubuntu 20.04. Maybe someone could explain how to > do this. Running > /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd --version > doesn't do it. > > The problem is unlikely to be the implementation of netgroups - that hasn't changed in a long time. It is more likely to be some subtle configuration difference. Can you provide the verbatim /etc/netgroups file, and the extact host name that a DNS lookup of the client IP adress results in? NeilBrown