did you re-export the filesystems using exportfs -a as root? That ought to
do the trick.
Brad 'GreyBear' Davis - Dream Park
Ronin coder/Bithead at Large
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hidong Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 12:08 PM
Subject: no_root_squash and tape drive access
>Hi,
>
>I have two networked Linux machines, ripley and weaver. ripley has a
>dds-2 tape drive. I want to access ripley's tape drive from weaver. So
>I added ripley and weaver to each others /etc/hosts.equiv. How I can
>access ripley's tape drive from weaver with a command like 'tar tvf
>ripley:/dev/st0' issued from weaver. My problem is that when I try to
>issue this command from weaver as root (weaver's root), I get the error:
>
>Permission denied.
>tar: Cannot open ripley:/dev/st0: Input/output error
>tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
>I was told that this is due to root squashing. I looked up root
>squashing in man exports. So then I added this line to ripley's
>/etc/exports:
>
>/dev/st0 weaver(rw,no_root_squash)
>
>I also have this line in weaver's /etc/fstab:
>
>ripley:/dev/st0 /mnt/tape nfs defaults
>
>I sill can't get weaver's root to access ripley's tape drive. What am I
>doing wrong? Thanks,
>
>
>
>Hidong
>
>
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