From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 19 8:26:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.telecom.ksu.edu (gateway-1.telecom.ksu.edu [129.130.63.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 623B237B423 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:26:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sioux.telecom.ksu.edu(129.130.60.32) by pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma001375; Tue, 19 Sep 00 10:26:32 -0500 Message-ID: <39C785BB.EDD6F3E4@telecom.ksu.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:26:51 -0500 From: nathan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Caleb Walker , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: help resolving nfs mount issue References: <39C774CF.B9FAC33C@telecom.ksu.edu> <00091908143500.00242@butthead.walker> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Caleb Walker wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Is your BSD box named sabre? When you do a showmount is that your > machine that is coming up as being in his exports? If not did he > restart his nfsd or mountd to accept the new settings? Really the > server is the one that needs to make changes and restart the client > just tries to connect, but you do need to connect to the correct > directory that he specified in the exports file. > He sounds jealous or something... to clarify, yes.. my box IS named sabre, which is the first listing in the showmount -e command he said he hasn't restarted mountd or nfsd, but said that "if anything needs restarted.. its MY machine (sabre)" he won't take my word for it.. or even try ): so i'm tryin to gather "proof" to make my case and he has a policy that he won't support anything non-solaris, not that i need support, but he's lumped this situation into "its your problem, YOU figure it out" as far as jealousy.. i won't attempt to de-mystify his psyche, interesting note tho, during the nfs move and other upgrades, they've prolly rebooted each of the clients 3-6 times. funny, when you consider how much bashing these sun guys do of M$ for having to reboot all the time. anyway... many thanks! nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message