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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!gmi!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!sundog.tiac.net!spoon.beta.com!mcgovern From: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian McGovern) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: xdm and NFS (a curious question) Date: 16 Sep 1994 17:59:09 GMT Organization: BETA Mountain, Framingham, MA Lines: 27 Message-ID: <35cmdd$mp8@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: spoon.beta.com Heres a problem that has been bugging me all day. I have two FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 machines. One with a 380MB SCSI drive, and one with a 116MB IDE drive (this is not the problem... yet). On the machine with the 380MB drive, I have installed XFree 2.1, and all the other stuff, and it works great. In order to conserve disk space, I've NFS mounted /usr/X386 to the machine with 116 MB of disk space. When I run xdm, however, it tries to initialize the screen several times, then drops me back to a shell prompt. Upon doing a ps -ax, I can see xdm still (trying to) run. However, if I unmount this directory, and copy the files over, it works fine. My initial reaction was that maybe it had something to do with the way NFS was working. After playing with it for awhile, I found that directories owned by root, or root-alikes (ie - bin, daemon, etc) I could read fine, but not write to if I was root, but any directories owned by non-root type users (ie - I NFS mounted /usr/homes) would allow me to read and write with no problems at all. Can I possibly get some input on this, and how to avoid it. I would like it for both my work and home set of machines. Thankx, Brian