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- From: bcs@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Sun NFS clients need root access?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.133048.10075@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 13:30:48 +1200
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Lines: 29
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- Hi all,
-
- I administer a group of 10+ SS1s and IPCs running 4.1.2, running NIS, and
- DNS served from an external IPC. I've found a small NFS problem:
-
- In order for a file system to be available to another Sun workstation
- via NFS, I seem to have to export it with root access! That is, in
- a:/etc/exports "/usr/local -access=b:c:d" isn't sufficient. The mount on
- any of the clients goes like this:
-
- % mount a:/usr/local /mnt
- mount: access denied for a:/usr/local
- mount: giving up on:
- /mnt
-
- But if I make a:/etc/exports read "/usr/local -access=b:c:d,root=b:c:d"
- everything works fine. This is not the behaviour described in the
- manpages, it is not the way it used to work, and it is not the case for
- clients other than Sun workstations. I even have i386's running OS/2 that
- mount Sun file systems without needing this! Conclusion is that the
- problem lies with the Sun client s/ware or it's configuration. Any clues
- anyone?
-
- Replies by email please,
-
- +-Brent Summers, U of Waikato, NZ----------------------------------------+
- | "Laugh and the world ignores you. Crying doesn't help either." |
- | All opinions expressed are, of course, solely my own errors. |
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