NFS problems, mac & linux

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 24 August 2004 9:48 pm, someone claiming to be ejbr at comcast.net 
wrote:
> After many attempts and much swearing, finally got an NFS server running
> on a Mac G4 Powerbook (not my machine & I don't know OSX from shinola),
> with /Volumes/Alien shared.  I run on this Linux box:
> sudo mount 192.168.1.102:/Volumes/Alien /mnt/alien
>
> "mount" shows OK:
>     192.168.1.102:/Volumes/Alien on /mnt/alien type nfs
> (rw,addr=192.168.1.102)
>
> Problem is, I can't access /mnt/alien - even as root::
>     root:/mnt/alien # ls -al
> ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
>
> Then I notice
> edj:/mnt$ lk
> .  .  .  .
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root cdrw 1024 Aug 21 17:59 alien
> .  .  .  .
>
> If I umount, /mnt/alien is properly root:root.
>
> Why's that changing to cdrw group upon mounting?  I'm assuming the problem
> is at this Linux end someplace.  Any advice, hints, pointers?
> Thanks.

Does it behave the same way if you create a mount point other than on /mnt?
Try creating /alien off of / then:
sudo mount 192.168.1.102:/Volumes/Alien /alien
Do you get the same error?
I'm thinking something like /etc/security/console.perms is mucking 
with /mnt/alien for some reason...

HTH, 
Tim

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