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From: Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD - > Solaris
Date: 12 Nov 1995 06:05:13 GMT
Organization: The briney, briney deep
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kchan@leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu (Kenwrick Chan) wrote:
]
] Folks,
] Can a FreeBSD system mount a Sun Server running solaris? Can Linux? My
] guess is no.
Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> replied:
> Quick! The FreeBSD box is mounting the Solaris box!
>
> Throw cold water on it!
Better use a non-conducting liquid there, Terry.
>You mean NFS mount an exported file system?
>
>Yes, of course. So could a DOS box.
Remember that Solaris only honors NFS mount requests on the 'standard'
reserved port; the default under FreeBSD is to use a random port. Try
specifying '-P' on the mount request. Or just throw cold water on both
machines.
--
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