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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with NFS
Date: 12 Sep 1995 01:14:26 GMT
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K.R.Marshall@ukc.ac.uk (Keith Marshall) wrote:
>The problem I am having is that I need to allow anonymous netowrk
>users to mount drives on the server. At the moment, I can only mount a
>drive if PC-NFS has authenticated me. Now, I've tried changing various

Are you using the same versions of PC-NFS on each system, and does that
new system have all the appropriate anon usernames created?  The pcnfsd
docs that come with the port (don't `make clean' it - go into the work
directory and poke around for some docs in the sources) should shed some
light on this.

						Jordan