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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!xlink.net!nntp.gmd.de!stern.fokus.gmd.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NFS Mounting to a WRQ Reflection client Date: 10 Oct 1995 08:47:04 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <45d8do$38r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.951008122223.104673C-100000@dsu.deltast.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Stacy Trippe <strippe@dsu.deltast.edu> wrote: >Reflection suite, which includes a PC-NFS client. This client works >great with the version 1 pcnfsd on my AIX 3.2.5 box. However, I cannot >get these clients to "mount" to my FreeBSD box, even though they can "see" >the exported filespace, they simply cannot mount. Does mountd run with the -n argument? There's a bug in FreeBSD 2.0.5 preventing it from mounting a file system as user "nobody". Either mounting as "somebody" (after authorizing via pcnfsd), or removing the bogus check for the UID of "nobody" in the mountd sources will help. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)