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From: hedley@inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk (David Hedley)
Subject: Re: NFS Mounting to a WRQ Reflection client
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 11:59:26 GMT
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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
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