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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!msuinfo!uchinews!cs.umd.edu!afterlife!blackbird.afit.af.mil!dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil!dcsc.dla.mil!cp01395 From: cp01395@dcsc.dla.mil (Duane L. Rezac) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: pcnfsd and printer mounting Message-ID: <1893@dcsc.dla.mil> Date: 31 Aug 93 14:42:43 GMT Organization: Defense Construction Supply Center, Columbus Lines: 48 I have been working on installing pcnfsd on my 386bsd system in order to allow mounting of a printer. I am running 386bsd , patchlevel 0.2.4 when trying to mount a printer (lp2) from my pc using PC-NFS 3.5c, I get an access denied by server error message. I have tracked it down to this: when pcnfsd gets a print mount request, it creates a subdir in the spool directory, and tells the pc to mount it. The problem is, that mountd will not let the pc mount a subdir of an exported directory. A posting to comp.os.386bsd.bugs informed me that this is proper for mountd to do this. If I add the subdir to the export table, it allows me to mount the printer and use it. Example: exports: contains /tmp, moutable to everyone. pcnfsd - spool dir set to /tmp my pc name is cscppspc1 If I try to mount the printer on the 386bsd pc, pcnfsd creates the directory /tmp/cscppspc1 , but the mount request fails due to mountd's refusal to allow the mount. If I add /tmp/cscppspc1 to the /etc/exports file, then I can mount and use the printer. On our larger, bsd based mini's we can mount the printer without having anything but the spool dir in the exports file. Any suggestion on how to resolve this? Duane L. Rezac drezac@dcsc.dla.mil -- +-----------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Duane L. Rezac |These views are my own, and NOT representitive of my place| | drezac@dcsc.dla.mil of Employment. | +-----------------------+---------------------------------------------------+