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Bug : NFS client under Debian Sid won’t work with NFS server under Debian Etch

October 17, 2008 - No comment

NFS clients under Debian Sid (unstable) are not able to browse NFS shares running on a Debian Etch server.

It is a bug in package nfs-common in Sid :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492970

Clients running nfs-common 1.1.3 or above will not be able to access an NFS share running on server version 1.0.10.

You’d be able to mount the share just fine, but not browse the mounted directory :

# cd serveur/
bash: cd: serveur/: Permission denied

Downgrading to package version 1.1.2-2 indeed fixed the problem.

Thanks to Serge for pointing me in the right direction !

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