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From: K.R.Marshall@ukc.ac.uk (Keith Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with NFS
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 95 07:50:58 GMT
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In article <433frs$4ai@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de writes:
>Keith Marshall <K.R.Marshall@ukc.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>The problem I am having is that I need to allow anonymous netowrk
>>users to mount drives on the server.
>
>Did you start mountd with option -n?

Yes - that only allows non-root users to mount drives, not anonymous
ones. A previous poster gave me the solution - in the mount daemon
source there is a line which specifically excludes anonymous users
from mounting drives. Commenting this out and recompiling was all I
had to do.

Keith.
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"Mummy was an asteroid, Daddy was a  | Keith Marshall 
small, non-stick kitchen utensil..." | Computing Officer, Templeman Library
  - Quiet Sun, 1975                  | University of Kent at Canterbury.