Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 10:41:16 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, nadav@barcode.co.il Subject: Re: NFS mounts on NT with Hummingbird Maestro Message-ID: <199706271641.KAA11855@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <199706270951.LAA26014@ws6423.gud.siemens.at> from "marino.ladavac@siemens.at" at Jun 27, 97 11:51:50 am
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Marino recently stated:
> In my experience, NFS servers remap root to nobody (UID -2). Only a few
> (SunOS 4, *BSD, I'm not sure about SunOS 5) allow the exporter to control
> the remapping feature.
>
> In other words, there is nothing wrong, you simply will not be getting root
> access (we have to live with this security "feature" on our HP's).
Every UNIX NFS server I've ever encountered, and that is a *LOT* of
them, allow you to specify what you want to do with remote root
requests. This includes, of course, HP-UX. Sometimes this is an
option to the NFS mounter daemon rather than a specification in the
exports database.
As far as Hummingbird goes, you're better off putting the disk drives
on your UNIX machines. Your Hummingbird NFS server probably includes
NFS client software as well, have you tried NFS mounting the volumes on
the NT machine? This works fine with UNIX systems; it's an expensive
symlink.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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