Re: [TCLUG:15942] Network newbie Q

[Troy Johnson <john1536@tc.umn.edu>]

Would 0555 work? What is is /var/log/messages on the client and host?

Eric F Crist wrote:
> 
> As insecure as it sounds, for the purpose of the install, do a (as root) chmod
> 0777 /mnt/cdrom  This will allow everyone to access the cdrom.  I hope this
> fixes your prob.
> 
> Eric
> 
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Ok, kids, I'm hoping this is
> an easy question for a couple of gurus: >
> > I have a boatload of old machines and am making baby steps into
> > networking.  I got Caldera 2.2 to install on the first machine (the one
> > that has the CD-ROM), and am now trying to bootstrap linux onto the other
> > machines via an NFS install.  Right now, I've just got two machines both
> > running honest-to-Pete NE2000 NIC's through a little D-Link hub.  I have
> > even gotten the first machine (ontario.rephil.org 192.168.0.1) to ping the
> > card of the second machine(erie.rephil.org 192.168.0.2).  I also used
> > 'rlogin ontario' to "remote" login on the first machine, so I'm pretty
> > sure that everything is copacetic with the net stuff on that machine.
> >
> > Using Caldera's install (the old LISA, non-graphics method, since these
> > are ancient EGA/VGA video cards), everything goes swimmingly, until the
> > point where it tries to access the NFS mounted cdrom.  It checks that /mnt
> > isn't locally used, but when it tries
> >
> >  mount -t nfs -o ro 192.168.0.1:/mnt/cdrom /mnt
> >  (in the script -- I spec the remote directory)
> >
> > I get a "Permission denied" error.
> >
> > I have the following in the /etc/exports file on ontario:
> >
> > /mnt/cdrom    *(ro)   ;I have also tried
> > /mnt/cdrom    192.168.0.*(ro)
> >
> > When I change this, I use the /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs {stop|start} file to
> > make sure the daemons have the correct files at their disposal.
> >
> > I have nothing at all in /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, which (if
> > I'm reading correctly) should mean that anyone can get access to the NFS
> > services.  I know it's not a good way to run, but right now I'm just on
> > the "workbench."
> >
> > Can anyone suggest (or even better:  tell me definitively!) how to make
> > the new machine see the files on the distro CD?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Phil M
> >
> >  --
> > Life is complex:
> > It has real and imaginary components.
> >                      --Unknown
> >
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> 
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