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Re: Problems with booting via ethernet



	> From: magic@on-line.de
	> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:02:31 +0100 (MET)
	> 
	> 
	> Mar  3 11:42:26 magic in.tftpd[650]: connect from 192.168.0.2
	> Mar  3 11:42:26 magic tftpd[651]: tftpd: trying to get file:
	>                     /local/tftpboot/iX-Terminal/romeo/bootImage  
	> Mar  3 11:42:37 magic tftpd[651]: tftpd: read: Connection refused

In addition to Ken Yap's comments, You should make sure that 

	/local/tftpboot/iX-Terminal/romeo/bootImage really exists &
	is world-readable.

	tftpd is not prepending something to the path name (e.g., is
	not trying to access /tftpboot/local/tftpboot/...)

	that tftpd's home directory is set to /local/tftpboot.

The following is from SunOS' tftpd manual.  Even if your NFS server is
not SunOS, it might still apply.

     /usr/etc/in.tftpd [-s] [ homedir ]
 
     Before responding to  a  request,  the  server  attempts  to
     change  its  current directory to homedir; the default value
     is /tftpboot.

     -s   Secure.  When  specified,  the  directory  change  must
          succeed; and the daemon also changes its root directory
          to  homedir.   This  option  is  set  in  the   default
          /etc/inetd.conf file.

          The use of tftp does not require an account or password
          on  the  remote system.  Due to the lack of authentica-
          tion information, tftpd will allow only publicly  read-
          able  files  to be accessed...

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Haim (Howard) Roman     |  Computer Center
roman@mail.jct.ac.il    |  Jerusalem College of Technology,  ISRAEL



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