On Monday 21 March 2005 07:29, Brian Fahrlander wrote: >On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 00:22 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: >> In defense of what Gene said, there was a considerable long thread >> about his problem with nfs, and in spite of everything he tried it >> seemed to just not work. >> >> (his /etc/exports and /etc/fstab files looked correct, and he >> stopped/restarted the services or rebooted with every change as >> well as having firewalling turned off, but it refused to >> cooperate.) >> >> A reasonable alternative to nfs is samba in his environment. >> >> If you can help him get NFS to work, please, by all means, try to >> do so. > > By "just wouldn't work" does that mean he could mount it, but not >write to it? No, I couldn't mount it at all, permission denied. >There's a hidden bug for that one: wildcards >in /etc/exports...they have to be explicit. > > Just FYI >-- >Those who entrust life and limb to Microsoft deserve neither. -Me, > 2005 > ------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- Brian Fahrländer Christian, Conservative, and > Technomad Evansville, IN > http://www.fahrlander.net ICQ: 5119262 > AIM: WheelDweller > ------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.