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- From: kstout@medieval.East.Sun.COM (Kate Stout - Sun PC Network Engineering)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: PC-NFS Browse & Mount
- Date: 9 Sep 1992 17:09:40 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. - BDC
- Lines: 24
- Message-ID: <18lb4kINNrfv@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- Reply-To: kstout@medieval.UUCP ()
- NNTP-Posting-Host: medieval.east.sun.com
-
- There was an inquiry last week about Browsing and Mounting
- Filesystems using PC-NFS 4.0 with Windows.
-
- The concern raised was why you can't connect all of the file systems
- that you can see when you browse the server.
-
- The answer is fairly simple - Browsing shows all of the exported
- filesystems available on a server, regardless of permissions and status.
- (For example, it is possible to have a filesytem exported that no
- longer exists.)
-
- When you attempt to connect, checking is done for a variety of things,
- such as whether you have permissions to mount the file system, whether
- it exists, etc.
-
- So it is possible to have a mismatch between what you have rights for
- and what is shown, or what the server claims to have, and what is
- actually there.
-
- Hope that helps - Kate
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- -- Kate Stout, PC-NFS Engineer | There are two kinds of people --
- -- Sun Microsystems, Billerica MA. | in the world; those who divide -- -- (kstout@East.Sun.COM) | the world into two kinds.... --
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