From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 16:30:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04504 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:30:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04262 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:29:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA13606; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:28:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:28:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Sam Ghalyoun cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: NFS In-Reply-To: <6F20CB2E234FD111AFAA00A0C976AAE00B559E@ohexch.tri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Sam Ghalyoun wrote: > Doug > > I've talked to you earlier about my BSD. I have another question > though. There's more of us here than just me, but that's okay. :) > I just can't get my NT workstation to access the NFS /usr volume on my > FBSD. I'm using Humming bird client for NT and it works elsewhere, I can > see the volume when browsing and I can mount it but can't write to it. > The exports file is configured correctly according to the default > installation, I just changed the host names. What does your /etc/exports file look like? What's the hostname of the client? > However the question is, I have the O'Reily book on NFS/NIS and it does > not seem to be compatible with the available configuration files on my > BSD, at least not the way the exports file is configured or others as > well, do you have any info about that, by the way I also had problems > with NIS, where I could not use the YP commands because according to the > error returns, it can not find a server to bind, although the NIS server > was running. It's removed now. We use a different implementation of NIS than the ORA book uses. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message