Subject: Re: netboot perms
To: Matt Herzog <mherzog@mediaone.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/20/2001 13:07:38
	You may find it easier to just leave /usr in /export/numbat/root
	unless you are planning on sharing it with other hosts.

	Have you tried exporting the filesystem containing /export/numbat
	with -alldirs?

		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Matt Herzog wrote:

> I have a netbooting (almost) Sparc10
> that will not be allowed to mount anything but
> root. I get Permission Denied when I try to mount
> /export/client/usr in preparation for the
> MAKEDEV all step. I have tried several things
> including
> chmod -R root:wheel /export/client/usr
> and
> chmod -R nobody:nobody /export/client/usr
> but there is no change in the behavior.
>
> At present, my /etc/exports looks like this:
>
> /export/numbat/root -maproot=root:wheel    numbat.muddle
> /export/numbat/swap -maproot=root:wheel    numbat.muddle
> /export/numbat/usr  -maproot=root:wheel    numbat.muddle
> /export/numbat/home -maproot=root:wheel    numbat.muddle
> # /export/sonny -alldirs -maproot=0 -network 10
> # /exports/sonny -network 10.0.2.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 -maproot=root
>
> I'm hoping the comments are not screwing things up. # Comments
> are OK, if I remember correctly.
>
>