🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello again,   (guess who's back at the smbx
                 again... :)

I have a symbolics 3650 (Genera 8.1.1) with NFS
connected via ethernet to my pc, which is running
Omni-NFS95.  I have no problems accessing the 3650
from the pc, but I can't get the other way going,
due to the pc denying access. It seems that putting
the "System Type" as "UNIX42" makes the symbolics
want to access the /etc/passwd file on the pc, and
of course there's no such file (or directory)on the
pc.  I need some suggestions here, even wild and
crazy ones.
     This may involve setting up a tranlation that
changes the ST:/etc/passwd to C:\etc\passwd and
maybe I can fake the passwd file (I forget what's
in one, btw).
     Or, I seem to recall something about an entry
on the smbx that addresses "trusted hosts" or
something like that.
     Like I say, any suggestions are good ones.

This is the namespace object (unnecessary stuff
trimmed) for the pc (named strider), as stored
on the smbx host:

Site: MIDDLEEARTH
Nickname: ST
Nickname: C
Short Name: ST
Machine Type: PC
System Type*: UNIX42
Address: INTERNET 87.0.0.6
Service: FILE UDP NFS
Service: FILE TCP TCP-FTP
Service: UNIX-RLOGIN-SERVICE TCP UNIX-RLOGIN
Server Machine: Yes
Default Secondary Name Server: No
Internet Domain Name: MiddleEarth
User Property: NFS-REMOTE-FILESYSTEM / C:\
User Property: USER-ID 3
User Property: GROUP-ID 1

My approach to this is as a self-taught (with
some slug help) hacking type guy. So I don't
really know anything for sure where this stuff
is concerned. I suspect that my NFS-REMOTE-FILE-
SYSTEM stuff is plain dumb wrong... and maybe
I need something more here, or something in the
Site object or somewhere else?

Here's the site object "MiddleEarth" (trimmed)

Pretty Name: MiddleEarth
Local Namespace*: MIDDLEEARTH
Site Directory*: TIMERAN:>sys>site>
Site System: timeran
Host For Bug Reports*: TIMERAN
Timezone*: PST
Secure Subnets: INTERNET all
Dont Reply To Mailing Lists: zero or more tokens
All Mail Addresses Forward: No
Other Sites In Mail Area: zero or more sites
Root Domain Server Address: a pair of a network and an address
Query Root Domain Servers Recursively: a token
Standalone: No
Validate Lmfs Dump Tapes: No
Terminal F Argument: a triple of a token, a global name, and zero or more
names of hosts
Host Protocol Desirability: TIMERAN NFS 1
Host Protocol Desirability: STRIDER NFS 1
User Property: a user property pair of a global name and a token

Remember that the connection is definately there,
as the pc accesses the smbx with no problems. The
error message I get most (when attempting to access
the pc via FSEdit) is:
-
A file error occurred:
Permission denied
For ST:/
-

(this ^ if the NFS-REMOTE-FILESYSTEM is set to "/ \")

or this error:
-
A file error occurred:
No NFS mount could be made on host STRIDER.
The error report for the last mount attempted was:
   Permission denied
   For ST:/.
For ST:/.
-

(this ^ if the NFS-REMOTE-FILESYSTEM is set to "st c:\" )

I'd really appreciate any ideas.  Thanks! Scott

sbusse@wkpowerlink.com