On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 01:18:55PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> 
> But when I tried to access /mnt, I got permission denied. As root! So
> I did an 'ls -l /' and alas, the /mnt directory was gone -- invisible.
> I did 'ls -ld /m*' and got a permission denied for '/mnt', but '/mnt2'
> showed up as expected.

You should use the -P option to mount_nfs (this is the default
in -current). What is happening is probably that the mount RPC succeeds,
but NFS requests themselves do not originate from reserved ports,
so the server replies with 'permission denied' all the time.

- Frank