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From: ccsam002@wilma.ucdavis.edu (Wayne Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Mount Problems
Keywords: nfs
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Date: 6 Dec 90 01:12:13 GMT
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Hello all,

Here at UCD Music we're running an '030 cube with the 1.0a release (soon to
get the software upgrade!), and I wish to make the cube an NFS client to our
Sun 3/160 system with its huge hard drives...or more accurately I wish to
mount several of the Sun's ("roger") partitions read/write on our NeXT.  The
/etc/fstab file AND the NetInfo database (as seen through "NetInfo Manager")
both indicate the following information:

-------
#
# NOTE: This file is never consulted if NetInfo is running. It is only
# used during bootstrap.
#
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
#
roger:/usr /Net/roger/usr nfs rw,bg,net 0 0
roger:/sound1 /Net/roger/sound1 nfs rw,bg,net 0 0
roger:/sound2 /Net/roger/sound2 nfs rw,bg,net 0 0
roger:/sound3 /Net/roger/sound3 nfs rw,bg,net 0 0
roger:/sound4 /Net/roger/sound4 nfs rw,bg,net 0 0
-------

But the /etc/mtab I get after boot or "mount -a" is:

-------
/dev/sd0a "/" 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
roger:/usr "/Net/roger/usr/roger/usr" nfs rw,bg 0 0
roger:/sound1 "/Net/roger/sound1/roger/sound1" nfs rw,bg 0 0
roger:/sound2 "/Net/roger/sound2/roger/sound2" nfs rw,bg 0 0
roger:/sound3 "/Net/roger/sound3/roger/sound3" nfs rw,bg 0 0
roger:/sound4 "/Net/roger/sound4/roger/sound4" nfs rw,bg 0 0
-------

I have absolutely no idea what causes this!  What I would like to do is
perform all network management through the /etc/* administration files and
not use NetInfo at all, but now I'm not sure how to stop it.

Another problem is that once the file systems are mounted, I have read but
no write access to the Sun disks.  The sun system exports the needed file
systems rw, and acknowledges the NeXT as a trusted host, so again I am
stumped.

Any help or insights you could provide would be much appreciated.  Please
post or mail to me at

        frog@roger.ucdavis.edu

Hopefully version 2.0 will be more predictable and provide more sys
administration applications.

Thanx much!  --  Wayne (frog) Jackson