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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem w/ [pc]nfsd re. MS Word, Windows95
Date: 4 Dec 1996 07:00:44 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corp.
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In <5819mg$q9f@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de>, mehldau@photogrammetrie.de (Gerhard Mehldau) writes:
>
>Hello world,
>
>we are having problems with a FreeBSD 2.1.0 [PC]NFS server
>w.r.t. Microsoft Word 6.0 and/or Windows95.  We are using
>FTP Software's OnNet client software.
>

In the file /etc/sysconfig,

do you have the line

weak_mountd_authentication=YES set?

Some PC NFS implementations need this.