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Date:      Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:28:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Sam Ghalyoun <sghalyoun@rens.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NFS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980429162753.13203O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6F20CB2E234FD111AFAA00A0C976AAE00B559E@ohexch.tri.com>

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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



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