Hi,
I have a network of three Mandrake 5.3 kernel 2.2.9 machines. All of
their partitions are nfs mounted, and I can rlogin between all three of
them. One of them has a 4 mm dds-2 tape drive. From one of the other
two machines, I can access the tape drive to make backups with:
tar cvf ripley:/dev/st0 /partitions
where ripley is the name of the machine with the tape drive. However, I
can only do this as a regular user from the two remote machines. I
cannot issue this command as root on the other two machines. I get an
error saying that permission is denied. Is root not allowed to access
devices across a network? Thanks,
Hidong
