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From: jackson@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: Trouble using an NFS filesystem
Message-ID: <1992Sep10.162146.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
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Organization: Merrimack Education Center
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:21:46 GMT
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Now, for something related:
 
After ifconfig'ing ec0 and successfully ftp'ing/ping'ing a host on our net,
I am having problems trying to access an NFS server.  The NFS server is a
netware 3.11 box with Netware NFS v1.1.  I can get the server volume to mount
on the 386bsd filesystem and running df gives an accurate report of the space
available, but I am unable to do anything in the directory where the NFS
volume is mounted.  Trying to do an ls or cp'ing something into that directory
just gives me a permission denied error.  Doing an ls -l of the mount
directory after I've mounted the volume shows the privledges as being:
 
 drwx------     4 root          512 Sep 9 16:30 mcet1/    
 
It would seem as if I had the proper privledges, right?  Last, if I explicitly
try to mount the NFS volume by hand with the command line:        
 
 # mount /bsd386/@mcet1: /mcet1 (I know, I know, it should be /386bsd/ :-) )
 
I get a message that reads "Can't get net id for host".  I can't figure out if
I've got something set up incorrectly on the Netware NFS hosts's side or if
the problem is somewhere in how I've configured the 386bsd system.  Anyone
want to offer any suggestions?    
 
-John      
jackson@a1.mec.mass.edu