The system from which you are trying to work will need root permissions on the root volume.  Be sure to check the /etc/exports file to see if the host that you are using is included both in the access and root options of the export.  Once your hosts is added to the list, you will need to re-export the file system "exportfs -a" works well.

[9]% cat exports
#Auto-generated by setup Mon Jan 11 19:38:12 CST 1999
/vol/vol0 -access=admin1,root=admin1

Also check the /etc/hosts.equiv

[8]% cat hosts.equiv
#Auto-generated by setup Thu Nov 15 16:47:41 GMT 2001
admin1

This file will define those files that are allowed to "rsh" to the filer.  Personally, I put the administrative host name and IP address in the /etc/hosts file so that the filer does not require DNS to be running in order to find the administrative host names.  This is useful after power outages.  After such occasions, once our networking group has the network infrastructure operational, i.e. routers and such, I can bring the filers up completely independent of the rest of our infrastructure, such as NIS/NIS+, DNS, etc.

I hope this helps.  Please feel free to drop me a line if you need more help. -gdg
 
 
 

John Coke wrote:

 

I have inherited configuration of a 740.  I struggled for hours trying to install Ontap via CIFs and threw up my hands because I could not map the root volume.  So, I tried NFS and did get it to mount and even got the new OS to copy over to the filer.  The problem is I cannot change the permissions of any of the files nor change their owner.  I _can_ create/edit files.  This was particularly irritating when the install script untarred all of the OS files to the filer and the screen filled with "Operation not permitted" messages.  Anyone overcome this problem before?  Thanks.

Note:
UNIX style permissions
CIFS is disabled (for the moment).
NetApp Release 6.1.1R2
NFS client is Linux

-John