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Re: Troubleshooting NFS/SFU
by John Nietzsche
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Dear folks,
i am trying to get my windows boxes access nfs directly by means of SFU, too!
I would like to have a global mount, say drive g: to mount from my
home directories.
Is it possible? How have you been doing in order to get a global drive mapping?
Thanks in advance.
On 5/14/07, David Higgs <higgsd@...> wrote:
> I've tried to configure NFS and am nearly all the way there, but it
> seems like I've hit a pretty big stumbling block. I've got OpenBSD
> 4.1-stable (10.0.0.1) with an NFS export of my home directory. I also
> have a Windows XP machine (10.0.0.2) and installed the SFU 3.5 NFS
> client.
>
> [/etc/exports]
> /home/david -mapall=david:guest -network=10.0.0.0 -mask=255.255.255.0
>
> I can successfully mount this share locally and perform both reads and writes.
>
> Without any of SFU's User Name Mapping configured, I can mount the
> share with uid/gid of -2/-2 as advertised. Appropriately, I cannot
> access any files or directories that are not world-readable. However,
> inside a chmod-777 directory, I cannot create files or directories
> (which might be as expected).
>
> After configuring User Name Mapping to map my Windows account to the
> UNIX account, I can mount the share with the expected uid/gid.
> Although I can read user-only files and directories, I still cannot
> create any files or directories. Windows keeps reporting that the
> drive has write-protection enabled.
>
> I know this isn't a SFU help forum, but any ideas to try or tips on
> troubleshooting the NFS side is more than welcome. Thanks in advance.
>
> --david
>
> P.S. On an unrelated sidenote, does mountd always bind to the same
> ports by default? If not, is there a way to fix them at certain
> values, so that PF rules can be written to match? Linux rpc.mountd(8)
> supposedly has a -p option that can be used for this purpose.
i am trying to get my windows boxes access nfs directly by means of SFU, too!
I would like to have a global mount, say drive g: to mount from my
home directories.
Is it possible? How have you been doing in order to get a global drive mapping?
Thanks in advance.
On 5/14/07, David Higgs <higgsd@...> wrote:
> I've tried to configure NFS and am nearly all the way there, but it
> seems like I've hit a pretty big stumbling block. I've got OpenBSD
> 4.1-stable (10.0.0.1) with an NFS export of my home directory. I also
> have a Windows XP machine (10.0.0.2) and installed the SFU 3.5 NFS
> client.
>
> [/etc/exports]
> /home/david -mapall=david:guest -network=10.0.0.0 -mask=255.255.255.0
>
> I can successfully mount this share locally and perform both reads and writes.
>
> Without any of SFU's User Name Mapping configured, I can mount the
> share with uid/gid of -2/-2 as advertised. Appropriately, I cannot
> access any files or directories that are not world-readable. However,
> inside a chmod-777 directory, I cannot create files or directories
> (which might be as expected).
>
> After configuring User Name Mapping to map my Windows account to the
> UNIX account, I can mount the share with the expected uid/gid.
> Although I can read user-only files and directories, I still cannot
> create any files or directories. Windows keeps reporting that the
> drive has write-protection enabled.
>
> I know this isn't a SFU help forum, but any ideas to try or tips on
> troubleshooting the NFS side is more than welcome. Thanks in advance.
>
> --david
>
> P.S. On an unrelated sidenote, does mountd always bind to the same
> ports by default? If not, is there a way to fix them at certain
> values, so that PF rules can be written to match? Linux rpc.mountd(8)
> supposedly has a -p option that can be used for this purpose.
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