Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!dog.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!woodstock!dennis From: dennis@peanuts (Dennis Cottel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: NFS: SysV/386 to Apollo, a summary Message-ID: Date: 26 Nov 90 20:05:01 GMT References: <3147@nosc.NOSC.MIL> <4e2e735b.1bc5b@pisa.ifs.umich.edu> Sender: nobody@nosc.NOSC.MIL Lines: 18 rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes: > In article <3147@nosc.NOSC.MIL>, jensen@gandalf.nosc.mil (Layne K. Jensen) writes: > > I recently posted a request for help in getting our NFS connection working > between an Intel SysV/386 machine and our Apollos... > The Apollo implementation always requires that the Unix userid and user > number be identical on both systems. There appears to be no way around this. > I thought this was a restriction in the NFS protocol. Are there other NFS > implementations that don't require this? [Note that I work with Layne.] Well, a user on the Intel could list files on a mounted Sun directory on which system he had no account whatever. I have no idea what the protocols say, we were just comparing how things worked between the systems and assumed Sun must be "truth". Dennis Cottel, dennis@NOSC.MIL, (619) 553-1645 Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92152