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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: nfs mounting linux drives under FreeBSD Date: 15 Apr 1996 19:49:46 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4ku98q$cj0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <aak2.829556087@ra.msstate.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) writes: >I am not sure why I cant seem to be able to nfs mount drives from >linux machines. > >I use "mount -t nfs linux1:/ /mnt/linux1" > >and it partially mounts it. I keep getting permisson errors. UID 0 is normally remapped to -2, so that you cannot defeate the security of the NFS server. You have to export it _on the server_ with a mapping of UID 0 == 0. Consult your Linux manual for how to do this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)