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- From: costello@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Costello)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: Re: PC-NFS Browse & Mount
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.140149.7994@eplrx7.es.duPont.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 14:01:49 GMT
- References: <18lb4kINNrfv@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- Organization: DuPont Engineering Physics Laboratory
- Lines: 43
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- From article <18lb4kINNrfv@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>, by kstout@medieval.East.Sun.COM (Kate Stout - Sun PC Network Engineering):
- > There was an inquiry last week about Browsing and Mounting
- > Filesystems using PC-NFS 4.0 with Windows.
-
- I asked the question.
- >
- > 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.
-
- I knew that, it was part of the question. The filesystem I'd like
- to mount is on a Sun geographically and has different UID, GID settings, so
- that the authentication done by a local SUN running pcnfsd doesn't count for
- anything.
-
- >
- > 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.
-
- I want the mount attempt to ASK for username/password as applied to
- the remote file system. Or can I turn authentication off altogether and be
- asked for username/password for each file system to be mounted.
-
- >
- > Hope that helps - Kate
- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > -- 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.... --
- >
-
- --
- Tim Costello
- Du Pont Merck Pharmaceutical
- costello@eplrx7.es.dupont.com
-