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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: mount question of NetBSD/sparc
Date: 1 Sep 1994 11:00:30 +0200
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daniel@info1.csie.nctu.edu.tw (Shung-I You) writes:

>   When I mount the server directory, 
>   I got the error message on server site. (server run SunOS4.1.1)
>-> NFS request from unprivileged port.
>-> nfs_server: weak authentication, source IP address=140.113.215.169

A properly configured Sun will drop NFS reqests coming from port
numbers > 1023.  Apparently the NetBSD client doesn't use reserved ports
for NFS.

Casper