"mount: File exists" when trying to mount a second krb5 volume!

J. Bruce Fields bfields at fieldses.org
Fri Oct 27 15:51:26 EDT 2006


On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 06:56:43PM -0700, Open Source wrote:
> I am having a very similar problem to the one reported
> by Joachim Selke on this list (2006/10/21).
> 
> I recently upgraded my client and server side kernels
> to 2.6.18.  I am unable to mount a second NFSv3+krb5
> share after already mounting one on the system.  I get
> the error
> 
> mount.nfs: File exists

Have you checked in wireshark/ethereal to see what's happening
on the wire while this is going on?

> I have been using NFSv3+krb5 for a long time with no
> problems.  My exports file on the server looks like:
> 
> /export/data gss/krb5(secure,rw,sync,wdelay,hide,no_subtree_check,auth_nlm,root_squash,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534)
> /export/data 192.168.0.0/24(secure,ro,sync,all_squash,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534)

Hm.  Does it change anything if you change the second all_squash to a
root_squash?

--b.


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