Hi Stevie,

I know, auth can be tricky...

In fact.
 
Without having further information about your setup I
can only recommend reading this doc:
http://kamalatta.ddnss.de/config/Plan9Tutorial.txt.

Thanks for the link, going to recheck my configuration.
 
P.S.: I don't know the full background, but connecting as the
hostowner seems to have other prerequisites.

That's what is surprising me.
I can 'cpu' the machine with 'bootes' (hostowner) uid.
I can 'srv' the machine...
I must have something strange there...

Pavel