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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.th-darmstadt.de!hotb.RoBIN.de!flinx.RoBIN.de!alvman.RoBIN.de!not-for-mail From: ah@alvman.RoBIN.de (Andreas Haakh) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NFS Mounting to a WRQ Reflection client Date: 12 Oct 1995 19:53:30 GMT Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 29 Message-ID: <45jrnq$39m@alvman.RoBIN.de> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.951008122223.104673C-100000@dsu.deltast.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: alvman.robin.de Organisation: X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0] Stacy Trippe (strippe@dsu.deltast.edu) wrote: : I am running a FreeBSD 2.0.5R box, as an NFS server, on a Gateway 2000 : Pentium P5-100, 16 MB RAM, 2 GB Seagate SCSI, AHA 2940 controller, and : 3COM 3C509 card. I have set aside 1.1 GB for mounting the filespace for : user applications (DOS/Windows 3.1 based). My clients are running WRQ : 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. I've checked the : permissions are set correctly, i.e. chmod 777 *. The pcnfsd on the : FreeBSD is version 1 & 2 compatible, supposedly. Does anyone have any : idea what the problem could be? Is it with the pcnfsd on the FreeBSD box? : Is it with the WRQ Reflection NFS clients? : Any help is severely appreciated. : : Stacy Trippe : I think you should supply mountd with the -n option mountd -n in order to allow non-root users to mount exported filesystems. Andreas -- Andreas Haakh \ ah@alvman.RoBIN.de Kirschberg 12 b \ +49 6155 62615 64347 Griesheim \_________________________________________