I can mount a directory from my solaris 2.5 sparcstation at school onto
my netbsd 1.2.1 via a ppp link.  You might need to examine
/etc/dfs/dfstab
on your sun machine.  It should have something like
share -F nfs -o rw=machine_list /export/home0
where the machines listed in machine_list are the only ones allowed to
mount /export/home0
if you log in as root on the sun machine and do 
share -F nfs -o rw /export/home0
it will allow any machine to mount /export/home0 with read/write access.  You
probably don't want to leave it that way, but it may help you locate the problem.

On the netbsd machine I simply did
mount sun_machine:/export/home0 /mnt/mount_name

This is everything I know on the subject, but I hope it helps.

Dan


In message <Pine.GSO.3.93.970405123251.19255A-100000@stingray.ivision.co.uk>, Jasper Wallace writes
:
>On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Rob Deker wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Jasper Wallace wrote:
>> 
>> > 
>> > I'm sure i've heard of problems with this combernation of os's before but my
>> > greps of mailboxes reveals nothing.
>> > 
>> > I'm running netbsd/arm32 1.2 of mid Febuary ish.
>> > 
>> This might have something to do w/ usage of non-reserved ports. Try using
>> "-o -P" on the mount command line to tell it to use reserved ports.
>> 
>> for example:
>> 
>>   mount -o -P -vat nfs
>
>Thanks for the reply but it dosn't seem to make any difference. The other
>clients on the net are FreeBSD boxes - they work both with and without the
>-P flag.
>
>
>
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