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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: problems with NFS mounting
Message-ID: <2694@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 2 Mar 89 02:33:17 GMT
References: <436@gregb.UUCP>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <436@gregb.UUCP> gregb@dowjone.UUCP (Gregory S. Baber) writes:
>I can mount Sun volumes
>from the Mac2, but I can't mount Mac2 volumes from the Sun. I get:
>	% mount -t nfs -o rsize=1024,wsize=1024,retry=10 mac2:/users /mnt
>	mount: access denied for mac2:/users
>	mount: giving up on:
>	   /mnt
>	%
>I have /users listed in the /etc/exports file on the Mac2, inittab is set
>to "wait" for an NFS server, and all permissions are 777. Anybody have
>any idea as to what's up???     Thanks,  gregb

If rpc.mountd cannot resolve the hostname stored in the UNIX-style credential
to the IP address from which the mount RPC request came, you would see the
behavior you describe.

Make sure the Sun's name and IP address can be discovered on the Mac II
through YP or named.


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Steve Dyer
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