NFS problems, mac & linux

[ejbr@comcast.net]

On Wednesday 25 August 2004 09:49 pm, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 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
[snip]
> > 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...

Yes, I tried that before I wrote.  Same result, though.  What a conundrum.  

-- 
Ed Jabbour