Subject: Re: NFS
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: John R. Daily <jdaily@bbn.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/10/1997 08:17:06
Frank van der Linden wrote:
> Hm, in this case you should need -alldirs. If not, that's
> really a bug.

I've not been able to detect any difference between having
it present and not.

> Could you perhaps make a world-writeable directory on the server,
> create a file as root on the client there, and tell me which
> uid/gid it has?

Sorry I didn't think of that myself.
On both server and client:
-rw-r--r--  1 4294967294  wheel  0 Jun 10 07:15 foo

Something's a bit awry.

> The server should get the credentials from the RPC, so the fact
> that they're not filled in in the NFS header doesn't matter.
> 
> Ok, obvious try: did you kick the mountd after you changed the
> exports file (kill -1 `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`)?

Yup. I've been running mountd both in normal and debug mode,
and running kill -HUP each time I make a change on the server.

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John R. Daily
jdaily@bbn.com