Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 09:26:15 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS mounts on NT with Hummingbird Maestro Message-ID: <33B60007.41D0@barcode.co.il> References: <199706271641.KAA11855@xmission.xmission.com>
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Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC wrote: > > Marino recently stated: > > In my experience, NFS servers remap root to nobody (UID -2). Only a few > > (SunOS 4, *BSD, I'm not sure about SunOS 5) allow the exporter to control > > the remapping feature. > > > > In other words, there is nothing wrong, you simply will not be getting root > > access (we have to live with this security "feature" on our HP's). > > Every UNIX NFS server I've ever encountered, and that is a *LOT* of > them, allow you to specify what you want to do with remote root > requests. This includes, of course, HP-UX. Sometimes this is an > option to the NFS mounter daemon rather than a specification in the > exports database. The Hummingbird has such an option. It simply doesn't work for me... > > As far as Hummingbird goes, you're better off putting the disk drives > on your UNIX machines. Your Hummingbird NFS server probably includes > NFS client software as well, have you tried NFS mounting the volumes on > the NT machine? This works fine with UNIX systems; it's an expensive > symlink. This works. I didn't get to testing root access over such setup (anyhow, I'm still puzzled at how to tell the NFS client it's supposed to access the remote mount as root, under NT). Moving the disks to the FreeBSD machine is not an option though. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com Thanks anyhow, Nadav
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