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Cc: Eric Murphy <eam404@earthlink.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: NFS question...
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Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Eric Murphy wrote:
> 
> If I chmod my $HOMEDIR to 777, then you can read/write
> to it.  But, if I export it via /etc/exports (NFS), you can't
> mount it unless you're root.  Expected behavior, seems
> to me, in light of my experience with 'Nixes.

why not use an automounter (amd..any others?) to take care of the 
mounting/unmounting @ the client end, and let the user simply access the 
/host/[hostname]/share/ mountpoint as needed?

Beto