Linux NFS mount: failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

I met this problem last week and it frustrated me for days...Now I found the solution after I spent hours on google, and amazing it works!!!

Linux NFS mount: failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

This issue drove me nuts today for several hours today, to be honest I was pretty close to breaking something! Earlier in the day I had the NFS mount working fine then I created an AMI and booted up another instance from the newly created AMI but in the new instance the mount kept failing. The error looks something like this:

[root@server]# mount -t nfs 192.168.2.1:/dbshare /mnt/dbshare
mount: 192.168.2.1:/dbshare failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

According to the error you would think that I have a configuration issue so I changed everything that I could think of within /etc/exports

My /etc/exports originally looked like this:

/dbshare 192.168.2.2(rw,sync) (where 192.168.2.2 is the client where I am performing the mount)

I changed it to something more open like this with no luck:

/dbshare 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0(rw,sync)

I started looking around the logs on the server in /var/log/messages and found that it was authenticating fine
Jun 11 19:04:00 servername mountd[5222]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.2.2:736 for /dbshare (/dbshare)

I was really frustrated at this point and I had already spent an hour on Google looking for the answer. I found another answer but the website was down, luckily the cached version on Google came to the rescue.

The ANSWER:

The problem was that the special nfsd file system that mounts to /proc/fs/nfsd wasn't mounted. I'm not sure how it gets mounted (maybe rc.sysinit does it?), but I tool the advice from the forum entry and added an entry to /etc/fstab

 

none /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd auto,defaults 0 0

then ran mount -a

After this the mount worked fine. I hope that someone finds this helpful.