problems with creating a NFS snapshot repository

[cjsGSB]

I can not get my logserver to mount a remote nfs directory. We need to do this to offload our audit records to a different server.
Followed the "Snapshot Repository Considerations" doc. The error I am still getting is :

mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting X.X.X.X:/auditarchive

Went through the usual issues with mounting NFS - /etc/exports,/etc/host.allow,/etc/hosts.deny.
NagiosLS is running in RHEL 6.9. Would it be better to have a CIFS mount instead of NFS

[scottwilkerson]

Would it be better to have a CIFS mount instead of NFS

You can use either, looks like you are getting an access denied, make sure your NFS server allows access from the Nagios Log Server IP

[cjsGSB]

Yes access is allowed.

Looking in /var/log/messages, there where errors related to:

rpc.mountd:refused mount request from X.X.X.X ------------: illegal port 50001

All I needed to do was edit the /etc/exports file by adding the insecure option:

/mnt *(insecure,ro,sync,no_root_squash)

First time I ran into this type of error, but all is working now

Cheers!

[scottwilkerson]

Yes access is allowed.

Looking in /var/log/messages, there where errors related to:

rpc.mountd:refused mount request from X.X.X.X ------------: illegal port 50001

All I needed to do was edit the /etc/exports file by adding the insecure option:

/mnt *(insecure,ro,sync,no_root_squash)

First time I ran into this type of error, but all is working now

Cheers!

Great!

Glad it is working now

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