Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!svin02!eba!ebe!wjw From: wjw@ebe.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: NFS for Apollo Message-ID: <1108@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> Date: 15 Mar 91 20:55:27 GMT References: Sender: news@eb.ele.tue.nl (The News system) Distribution: comp Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 34 In article hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) writes: =>In article babu@meap.uta.edu (Dorai Babu) writes: =>Short summary: Problem with a mounted foreign file system. From the =>mounting node, only root has access privileges. From other nodes, all =>users do, except fror one node where the mount directory does not even =>look like a directory. => =>I have mounted a tree from a Sun on one of our Apollos. In the Sun's =>/etc/exports file, one line reads => [delete full description] => Well this is also one of the items discussed in the thread you mentioned. I was the one starting it. I had the problem using NFS from Apollo to Apollo. And only root could really use the connection. My friendly Apollo-rep has even logged into our system, but was not able to find anything strange. It only started be be really strange when after a while the system started behaving like it should :{) (how about self reparing software) I'm convinced it has to do something with rights, but I'm still not able to see where :{ You will also notice (using ps axu) that the owner of the NFSD will change from one user to another, depending on who is the last with a file access. Note that /etc/nfsd does not have any strange rights which would make this possible. (Why not??) Still puzzled, Willem Jan Withagen Eindhoven University of Technology DomainName: wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl Digital Systems Group, Room EH 10.10 P.O. 513 Tel: +31-40-473401 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands