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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!ukc!crane.ukc.ac.uk!K.R.Marshall 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 Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 20 Sender: K.R.Marshall@ukc.ac.uk Message-ID: <584@crane.ukc.ac.uk> References: <577@crane.ukc.ac.uk> <433frs$4ai@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Reply-To: K.R.Marshall@ukc.ac.uk (Keith Marshall) NNTP-Posting-Host: crane.ukc.ac.uk 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. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "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.