heimir@rhi.hi.is (Heimir Thor Sverrisson) (06/27/91)
I've just installed NFS 2.1 on my 386/486 machines running ISC 2.2 and ran into two problems. 1) I cannot specify root access from my client in /etc/exports. I've also seen this limitation in other ports of NFS, but most of them have solved this. Is there a fix/upgrade available somewhere for this? 2) I cannot copy a file that is bigger than 4096 blocks onto a NFS-mounted filesystem, even though I've raised ULIMIT to 122000 in /etc/default/login. How come? Any kind of info on these points would be well received. -- Heimir Thor Sverrisson heimir@plusplus.is Laugavegi 13 101 Reykjavik Iceland
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (06/29/91)
heimir@rhi.hi.is (Heimir Thor Sverrisson) writes: >1) I cannot specify root access from my client in /etc/exports. I've also > seen this limitation in other ports of NFS, but most of them have solved > this. Is there a fix/upgrade available somewhere for this? There is a kludge that I put together that allows you to change the nobody variable in the kernel to 0 so that root users on your clients will get root priveleges on your file systems. However this is an all or nothing kludge - either all of your clients get root, or none of them. Anyway the program (kernmod) has been posted here a couple of times. If you can't find it anywhere closer to home, let me know and I will send it to you. >2) I cannot copy a file that is bigger than 4096 blocks onto a NFS-mounted > filesystem, even though I've raised ULIMIT to 122000 in /etc/default/login. > How come? This is because the nfs daemons are starting up with the kernel ulimit, not your /etc/default/login ulimit. See the FAQ for a complete description of how to set your ulimit (if you don't have a copy, you can wait till next week for me to post the new one, or send me email and I will send you the current issue). -- I guess these are the views of VTI - since it is my consulting company. Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 uunet!virtech!cpcahil Virtual Technologies, Inc. 46030 Manekin Plaza Sterling, VA 22170