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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Subject: Re: Help! PCNFSD?
Organization: Private Site, Member of Individual Network e. V.
Message-ID: <DCsxAr.Ew1@theatre.pandora.sax.de>
References: <3vleat$qvk@alterdial.uu.net> <3vptue$2dm@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 19:40:03 GMT
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In article <3vptue$2dm@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> you write:

>Btw., it's NOT responsible for mounting itself, just only for
>authentication from the DOS box to the Unix machine.  Remember that
>you have to start mountd with the -r option in order to allow non-root
>users to mount file systems.

Sorry, Joerg, I have to correct you:

man 8 mountd says:

(...)
     /sbin/mountd [-n] [exportsfile]
(...)
     -n      The -n option allows non-root mount requests to be served.  This
             should only be specified if there are clients such as PC's, that
             require it.

So it is -n, not -r.

(BTW: remember to check your /etc/exports file (man exports) so that
necessary directories are exported to your NFS clients. If you change
it, make mountd re-read that file. I think, you can do this with a
kill -HUP <PID-of-mountd> or umount and mount any directory. Don't
forget to look at the console if mountd reports any /etc/exports
errors :-) )

Bye,
    Martin
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