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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: pcnfsd and printer mounting Message-ID: <1993Sep1.170908.25338@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT References: <1893@dcsc.dla.mil> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 17:09:08 GMT Lines: 36 In article <1893@dcsc.dla.mil> cp01395@dcsc.dla.mil (Duane L. Rezac) writes: [ ... ] >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. [ ... ] >On our larger, bsd based mini's we can mount the printer without >having anything but the spool dir in the exports file. The *BSD NFS should allow you to mount subdirectories of your exported directories; if it doesn't, it's broken. I believe there has already been a patch to this, at or around the same time the "priveledged port" patch came out (so that you didn't have to use the "-n" option on the remote mountd). Basically, I believe that mounting subdirectories of exported FS's is part of the suite of patches to support 3.0 NFS clients. You may want to check archives of comp.unix.bsd, perhaps as far back as Dec 1992. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.