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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC-NFS permissions
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Date: 8 Aug 89 19:49:23 GMT
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In article <321@helens.Stanford.EDU> mike@relgyro.STANFORD.EDU (Mike Macgirvin) writes:
>	[...] I think Mr. Davis might just be talking
>about the 'one GID' problem with PC-NFS. PC-NFS, at least to 3.0, only
>allows you to be a member of ONE group, which is the one in your passwd
>file on the server. Touching files with which you have group access under
>Unix, cannot be done under DOS if they are not your default group.

I don't know which he was talking about, but both issues need
to be resolved.

>	I was told by Mr. Arnold (several months ago) that this would be
>fixed in a future PC-NFS release, using YP maps to bring the full spectrum
>of Unix groups into the PC's domain.

This is indeed fixed in 3.0.1. I'm going to post the info on 3.0.1
in a moment.

Geoff

Geoff Arnold,                              Internet: garnold@East.Sun.COM
Manager, PC-NFS Engineering                UUCP: ....!sun!East!garnold
PCDS Group, Sun Microsystems Inc.