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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS Mount from SunOS Sparc 5
Date: 19 Mar 1997 20:00:47 -0000
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Justin England <jengland@enetis.net> writes:

>I am tring to mount a partition from our Sparc5 running SunOS 4.1.4 on my 
>FreeBSD P100.  I have read through the docs, faqs, etc. and they state 
>that I need to use either mount -o -P sun:/dir /mnt or mount -o resvport 
>sun:/dir /mnt which is the same option.  I can mount it with no problems, 
>and I can see the root directory from the mount point, but I can not see 
>any files below the root.  I can access the files if I know their 
>location and that they exist, but I can not see them using ls.

It may be that you are not exporting it with the correct permissions.
Do you allow root access in the sun's exports file ?

	David.