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Re: Release note inaccuracies?

What Chris said. Sounds like you are running afoul of the 'nobody' syndrome: root is mapped to an unlikely UID ('nobody', usually -2), which gives it less than useful access permissions on remote volumes. You shouldn't be root anyway. Bad engineer. No biscuit.

As for Linux, it has a penchant for requiring privileged ports, which can be worked around on one end or the other.

Regards,

Justin

On Sunday, January 21, 2001, at 10:39 AM, Chris Hanson wrote:

> At 9:32 PM -0800 1/20/01, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> >No. Using the Linux box as an NFS server, OS X as the client, OS X fails
> >to mount the server correctly. I just did it again to refresh my memory.
> >It mounts, but then any attempt to access that directory (beyond cd'ing
> >into it) gives an "Operation not permitted" error. I'm doing this as
> >root, of course.
>
> What happens if you mount your NFS server and then, as a normal user,
> try to access that directory?
>
> Be aware that trying to use NFS while logged in as root is likely to
> have problems, because to compensate for its broken security model
> NFS gives *less* privileges to someone logged in as root on a local
> machine than they do to any other user.
>
> Also, be aware that Linux NFS is known to have interoperability
> problems and is generally considered a very poor implementation.
>
> (What would it take to get OpenAFS into the Darwin distribution, so
> it'll eventually show up in Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server?)
>
> -- Chris
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