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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!warwick!bsmail!inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk!hedley From: hedley@inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk (David Hedley) Subject: Re: NFS Mounting to a WRQ Reflection client Message-ID: <DGLDB2.I1@uns.bris.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@uns.bris.ac.uk (Usenet news owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk Reply-To: David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Bristol, England X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <Pine.A32.3.91.951008122223.104673C-100000@dsu.deltast.edu> <45jrnq$39m@alvman.RoBIN.de> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 11:59:26 GMT Lines: 35 Andreas Haakh (ah@alvman.RoBIN.de) wrote: : Stacy Trippe (strippe@dsu.deltast.edu) wrote: : : I am running a FreeBSD 2.0.5R box, as an NFS server, on a Gateway 2000 : : Pentium P5-100, 16 MB RAM, 2 GB Seagate SCSI, AHA 2940 controller, and : : 3COM 3C509 card. I have set aside 1.1 GB for mounting the filespace for : : user applications (DOS/Windows 3.1 based). My clients are running WRQ : : 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. I've checked the : : permissions are set correctly, i.e. chmod 777 *. The pcnfsd on the : : FreeBSD is version 1 & 2 compatible, supposedly. Does anyone have any : : idea what the problem could be? Is it with the pcnfsd on the FreeBSD box? : : Is it with the WRQ Reflection NFS clients? : : Any help is severely appreciated. : : : : Stacy Trippe : : : I think you should supply mountd with the -n option : mountd -n I found that this wasn't actually necessary. What _was_ necessary was to log in (net login *) before doing mounting. FreeBSD refuses (for some unknown reason) to let PCNFS mount a drive while logged in a nobody (-2) David -- David Hedley (David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk) http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~hedley/ finger hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk for PGP key Computer Graphics Group | University of Bristol | UK *** All opinions expressed are mine and mine alone ***