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From: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: NFS won't mount foreign disks
Keywords: NFS mount
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.223114.24254@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Date: 9 Nov 90 22:31:14 GMT
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
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I have installed NFS 2.1.p on my DN10000. It will successfully export
Apollo directories to foreign systems (IBM RS/6000, SGI 4D25) with
some flaky behaviour (on the foreign system, sometimes commands like
'ls' return no output, and the first 'pwd' after a 'cd ../..' gives 
error messages when working in an Apollo directory).

Problem: I can't mount any foreign file system on the DN10000 with
commands like:

mount -o soft gatto:/ /nfs/gatto_root
mount -o soft ferrum:/usr /nfs/ferrum_usr
mount -o hard ferrum:/usr /nfs/ferrum_usr

(the directory //dn10000/nfs already exists, but /nfs/blah_blah does not).

The error message is always:
mount: ferrum:/usr on /nfs/ferrum_usr: Access denied

Has anyone got NFS 2.1.p to work in this way?
Has anyone got NFS 2.1 (m68k version) to work in this way?
-- 
Mike Peterson, System Administrator, U/Toronto Department of Chemistry
E-mail: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
Tel: (416) 978-7094                  Fax: (416) 978-8775