Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.0.20031118173738.038611e8@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:40:16 -0500 To: "Robb, Sam" , "Nerijus Baliunas" From: Larry Hall Subject: RE: nfs-server 2.2.47-2 Cc: In-Reply-To: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D022F465A@exchange.timesys. com> References: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D022F465A@exchange.timesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 05:25 PM 11/18/2003, Robb, Sam you wrote: >> Latest cygwin, w2k, FAT, /etc/exports: > >Using nfs-server with a FAT filesystem is questionable. > >We've tried, and not been able to get it nfsd running >properly except on an NTFS filesystem with ntsec enabled. > >You might want to try enabling the ntea option (CYGWIN=ntea), >but I suggest you read the Cygwin user guide about this >option before deciding if you want to experiment using it. And 'ntea' is only an option for FAT drives (or technically, NTFS but that's not really interesting since the inception of 'ntsec'). If your FAT drive is really FAT32, there's no option for you currently. PTC. :-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/