Have you tried using privileges ports (-P) in the mount command?

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On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Bruce Walker wrote:

> I've been happily puzzling this one out for a few days, but it's
> time to see if I can buy a clue.
> 
> The problem in a nutshell is as follows.  All my user home dirs
> are NFS-mounted onto a NetBSD 1.2 box from a server.  If a user
> who is *not* a member of group wheel logs in, he can't pwd(1).
> All attempts to stat a dir on the NFS-mounted disk fails.  So for
> example,
> 
>   bmw@ampere$ rlogin braun -l joeuser
>   Password:
>   Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
>           The Regents of the University of California.   All rights reserved.
>   
>   NetBSD 1.2 (BRAUN) #3: Mon Mar 31 13:37:30 EST 1997
>   
>   Welcome to NetBSD!
>   
>   csh: Permission denied
>   csh: Trying to start from "/home/joeuser"
>   braun> pwd
>   pwd: Permission denied
>   braun> id
>   uid=1000(joeuser) gid=400(others) groups=400(others), 3312(vgimktg)
>   braun> 
> 
> 
> The error messages are where csh tries to do a getcwd(3) immediately
> after starting up.  Same thing happens to bash.
> 
> This only happens on the NetBSD 1.2 systems, but does not happen
> on the NetBSD 1.1 systems.
> 
> The fstab entry is:
> 
>   toaster:/home /disk/toaster/home nfs rw,-i,-b 0 0
> 
> The server is actually a Network Appliance F330 and /home is a 32G drive.
> 
> Does this behaviour ring a bell with anyone?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -bmw
>