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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS Mounting to a WRQ Reflection client
Date: 10 Oct 1995 08:47:04 +0100
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Stacy Trippe  <strippe@dsu.deltast.edu> wrote:

>Reflection suite, which includes a PC-NFS client.  This client works 
>great with the version 1 pcnfsd on my AIX 3.2.5 box.  However, I cannot 
>get these clients to "mount" to my FreeBSD box, even though they can "see" 
>the exported filespace, they simply cannot mount.

Does mountd run with the -n argument?

There's a bug in FreeBSD 2.0.5 preventing it from mounting a file
system as user "nobody".  Either mounting as "somebody" (after
authorizing via pcnfsd), or removing the bogus check for the UID of
"nobody" in the mountd sources will help.
-- 
cheers, J"org

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