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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Subject: Re: 386bsd latest patchkit NFS problems
Message-ID: <michaelv.740753659@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
Keywords: NFS
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Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
References: <pellens.27.740285972@admin.chchp.ac.nz>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 12:54:19 GMT
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In <pellens.27.740285972@admin.chchp.ac.nz> pellens@admin.chchp.ac.nz (Peter Ellens) writes:

>I am in the process of installing SOSS on my pc, a NFS server for msdos 
>boxs, everthing looks like it is working well but.. 

>After the mount commands I get the following error message on the 
>386bsd box. 

>"Bad MNT RPC: RPC Authentication error. Why = Invalid client credentual" 

>I have NFS enabled in netstart and Have it compiled into the kernal.

>Any Ideas??? Anyone done this???

You're probably in too many groups.  Older (brain-dead IMHO) NFS file
servers didn't like you being in more than 6 or 7 or 8 groups at once.
Edit /etc/group and logout and back in and see if things work better.

P.S. For those who still write such limited software, understand that
this can be quite a nightmare to get around in large installations
like Iowa State's Project Vincent, or MIT's Project Athena where a
user could easily be in fifteen to twenty groups without even knowing
it.


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  Michael L. VanLoon                           Project Vincent Systems Staff
  michaelv@iastate.edu              Iowa State University Computation Center
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