On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Roman V Shaposhnik<r...@sun.com> 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, >> missing codepage or helper program, or other error >> (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might >> need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program) >> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try >> dmesg | tail or so >> >> If I do "mount -t 9p 192.168.18.180 /mnt", using the file server IP, I just >> 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 nastiness. > Thus, I can only recommend 9pfuse. It worked quite well for the limited > application I needed it for. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > >
