From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1244566111.9958.1706.camel@work> References: <7d3530220906021030w391ef36eg588f9feae05fa012@mail.gmail.com> <1243964132.13276.46.camel@goose.sun.com> <7d3530220906021103l2f82344dh43cd1eff8fa42a99@mail.gmail.com> <1243966760.13276.61.camel@goose.sun.com> <7d3530220906021134x5e63484fj31f9943556328b5a@mail.gmail.com> <1244566111.9958.1706.camel@work> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:48:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3aaafc130906090948x46290423hc63ff803e9e9ba5a@mail.gmail.com> From: "J.R. Mauro" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Configuring NFS Topicbox-Message-UUID: 07c9fc04-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Roman V Shaposhnik wrote: > Hi John, > > it took me sometime to go through the old backups but it seems > that the NFS setup is gone by now. You can still ask questions, > if you want to, but I won't be able to send you all the working > conf. files. > > On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 11:34 -0700, John Floren wrote: >> I'd like to use the 9p mounting available in Linux, but it doesn't >> seem to work in this case. >> I try "mount -t 9p glenda /mnt" (glenda is my cpu/file server) and get: >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on glenda, >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0missing codepage or helper program, or other error >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0need a /sbin/mount. helper program) >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0dmesg | tail =A0or so >> >> If I do "mount -t 9p 192.168.18.180 /mnt", using the file server IP, I j= ust get >> mount: permission denied >> But dmesg shows "[88617.144804] p9_errstr2errno: server reported >> unknown error cannot attach as none before authentication", ONLY when >> I use the IP address--nothing appears when I use the /etc/hosts alias >> "glenda". >> >> What am I missing? > > I have very little experience working with the in-kernel support for > 9P. Somehow 9P and being a superuser feel mutually exclusive to me. Yes. This is sad. Sqweek has some suid tools to help get around the nastine= ss. > Thus, I can only recommend 9pfuse. It worked quite well for the limited > application I needed it for. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > >