Problems with freebsd nfsd and irix client

2002-02-12 Thread Eric Windisch
I am having difficulty with an nfsd running on FreeBSD and an irix client. I am unable to sucessfully call the getcwd() function as a non-root user in the mounted directory. For instance: raptor@DaVinci:/ which ls /usr/gnu/bin/ls raptor@DaVinci:/ cd /home/raptor raptor@DaVinci:~ which ls

Re: Problems with freebsd nfsd and irix client

2002-02-12 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 19:46, Eric Windisch wrote: Hi Eric, I have an IRIX box running 6.5 with some old patches and a NFS server running FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE, but I don't experience your problem: On the server side energyhq# uname -srn FreeBSD

Re: Problems with freebsd nfsd and irix client

2002-02-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Are you sure that the user making the request is a legal user on the server machine? If not, it's ID will be translated to -2. Perhaps this is an operator has failed to configure NIS correctly error? If so, the workaround is probably to specify both -mapall and -alldirs in the exports file

Re: Problems with freebsd nfsd and irix client

2002-02-12 Thread Eric Windisch
I fixed the problem.. as someone suggested, I umounted /home and then checked the file permissions.. 744. Changing to 755 fixed it :) I had made the mistake of checking the permissions on the mounted directory, d'oh :) Thanks for all the help guys. -- Eric Windisch http://bwbohh.net To