Nfs – FOG Server NFS Issue

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I am having an issue with the Free Open Ghost server. I set it up on Ubuntu server, and have Ubuntu mounting an SMB share to it's /images directory (my server has a small internal boot disk). Fog's web management interface sees the full capacity of my SMB share, but when I attempt to upload a system, I get a permissions error. The screen reads as follows:

* Preparing to send image file to server.
* Mounting File System................mount: 192.168.0.36:/images/dev/ failed, reason given by server: Permission denied
Done

Fatal Error: Failed to mount NFS Volume

Computer will reboot in 1 minute.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Best Answer

If you haven't otherwise configured NFS, FOG will initialise your /etc/exports for you; then you need the following for /images/dev/:

  • Permissions 0777 (mine is owned by fog/root but ownership may not be important)
  • A dummy file called .mntcheck also with permissions 0777 (mine is owned by root/root, but again the ownership of this may not be important) - use e.g. touch to create it.
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