Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Gatorbox and Sequent - incompatible? Message-ID: <1990Sep25.143436.10119@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 25 Sep 90 14:34:36 GMT References: <1990Sep24.224212.21837@informix.com> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Distribution: na Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 31 In article <1990Sep24.224212.21837@informix.com> cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi) writes: >The person who maintains the Gatorbox claims to have it direct from >Cayman that they cannot mount Sequent filesystems; end of story, case >closed. But can anyone tell me *why* this should be? Or better still, >can anyone offer a counterexample of a gatorbox that does work with Sequent >(and how was it done)? Glad to oblige. We occasionally mount volumes from our Sequent through our Gatorbox. The problem seemed to be that the Sequent refuses to authenticate users via normal gatorbox methods (ie, exporting the filesystem where /etc/password and /etc/group reside). Why or how this could be, I cannot tell you, as I have not extensively researched the problem. I have not extensively researched the problem because there is a simple workaround. In the server definitions, you are asked where /etc/passwd and /etc/group are. The entries are of the form: "host:path". Well, nobody said that "host" has to be the same host the filesystems are from. It's perfectly fine to get your passwd and group from a host other than the Sequent; subject, of course, to the caveat that uid's and gid's better match on both hosts if you want any security at all. Yellow Pages or pcnfsd might work, too. I *know* this worked under GatorShare 1.4 and Sequent Dynix 3.0.17. I *think* this worked under GatorShare 1.5, but I don't remember for certain that we used it under 1.5. I do not know if it works under 1.5.1beta, which we are running now (we did a big reconfiguration, and the old setup is gone). -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner