Problems with NFS (client) under 5.1.

[Josef Karthauser]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:09:18PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> I'm trying to set a FreeBSD 5.1 machine up as an NFS client.  The
> server is on an SGI box.  Things are strange:
> 
>     phoenix# uname -a
>     FreeBSD phoenix.mydomain 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Thu Sep 18 15:20:19 GMT 2003 root at pheonix.mydomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
>     phoenix# ls -ld /mnt
>     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Jun  5 01:53 /mnt
> 
>     phoenix# mount rebus:/rebus/home /mnt
>     phoenix# ls -ld /mnt
>     ls: /mnt: Permission denied
>     phoenix# ls -ld /* | grep mnt
> 
>     phoenix# umount /mnt
>     phoenix# ls -ld /* | grep mnt
>     drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Jun  5 01:53 /mnt
> 
> What's going on here?  Is it a bug or something that I'm doing wrong?
> 
>     phoenix# grep nfs /etc/rc.conf
>     nfs_client_enable="YES"         # This host is an NFS client (or NO).
> 
> The NFS server is:
>     IRIX64 rebus 6.5 04101930 IP35 mips

For the record, I upgraded this box to FreeBSD 5.2 over the last few
days and tried again, and to my surprise NFS worked!  I don't know
what's changed since then, but thanks :)

Joe
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