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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!ukc!crane.ukc.ac.uk!K.R.Marshall From: K.R.Marshall@ukc.ac.uk (Keith Marshall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problem with NFS Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 10:44:46 GMT Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 27 Sender: K.R.Marshall@ukc.ac.uk Message-ID: <577@crane.ukc.ac.uk> Reply-To: K.R.Marshall@ukc.ac.uk (Keith Marshall) NNTP-Posting-Host: crane.ukc.ac.uk We already have a FreeBSD CD-ROM server here, which has been running a very early version of the OS (1.0, I think) and has done us very well as a server for a Sun PC-NFS network of PC's. However, the time has come to expand so I am trying to build another server with FreeBSD 2.0.5. The problem I am having is that I need to allow anonymous netowrk users to mount drives on the server. At the moment, I can only mount a drive if PC-NFS has authenticated me. Now, I've tried changing various things in the /etc/exports file but none of these seem to make any difference. Even with just the directory (/u0/l/cdrom in this case) on the line, and no additional options/users/whatever I have to be logged in (under PC-NFS) to remotely mount the directory. This isn't a problem on our other server, which was not set up by me so perhaps has some non-standard hacks in the kernel. Am I missing something blindingly obvious here? Keith. (by default, anonymous users under PC-NFS have uid and gid -2 - this is PC-NFS 5.0 if that makes any difference) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Mummy was an asteroid, Daddy was a | Keith Marshall small, non-stick kitchen utensil..." | Computing Officer, Templeman Library - Quiet Sun, 1975 | University of Kent at Canterbury.