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From: Mark Blackman <markb@met.reading.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: PCNFSD anomalies
Date: 11 Sep 1995 15:14:32 GMT
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How-dee all,
Any theories on why pcnfsd.93.02.16 doesn't work completely with FreeBSD 2.0.5?
correction..
run as
"/usr/local/libexec/rpc.pcnfsd /var/spool/lpd"
A) "nobody (UID=-2/65534)" (on a PC running PCNFS-5.1a) **CANNOT** mount a
disk,
despite "mountd -n" and "uidrange 0-65535"(in /etc/pcnfsd.conf)?
a theory.. nobody == -2 on the PC, but UID's can't be negative???
(although I would have expected a standard signed to unsigned conversion to
65534, as happens under Solaris and Linux)
B) The same PC give me an error
"no such printer on server" when I use the wrong printer name BUT
"printer not exported, not local, or doesn't exist" when I use the
correct printer name. (/var/spool IS in /etc/exports, have also
included PC in hosts.lpd, do I need to include it in hosts.equiv?)
("showmount -e " from another machine confirms these directories are
being exported.)
theory.. is there a more explict exporting procedure?
Both of these things worked from a linux server running 1.2.8 and
the latest linux port of pcnfsd. Also I copied the /etc/printcap from the
working linux version. (changing names of printer devices, of course.)
Print and file services work from another Unix machine (as clients), so
I must presume the problem is in "pcnfsd" rather than "mountd"/"nfsd"/"lpd".
I can see that others have had the first problem, but I don't see any solutions
in the archives. (maybe a problem with reserved ports??)
Thanks for listening.
Mark