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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!noc.near.net!jericho.mc.com!jericho!gwr From: gwr@mc.com (Gordon W. Ross) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: mount question of NetBSD/sparc Date: 3 Sep 1994 17:06:51 GMT Organization: Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <GWR.94Sep3130727@walnut.mc.com> References: <3442kk$55j@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <34457e$rpj@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Reply-To: "Gordon Ross" <gwr@mc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: walnut.mc.com In-reply-to: casper@fwi.uva.nl's message of 1 Sep 1994 11:00:30 +0200 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 In article <34457e$rpj@mail.fwi.uva.nl> casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes: > A properly configured Sun will drop NFS reqests coming from port > numbers > 1023. Apparently the NetBSD client doesn't use reserved ports > for NFS. There is an option to ask mount_nfs to use a reserved port (mount -P server:/somthing /here). Otherwise you can change the server to run "mountd -n" to turn off this lame attempt at security. -- Gordon W. Ross Internet: <gwr@mc.com> Mercury Computer Systems Voice mail: 508-256-0052x295 199 Riverneck Road Front desk: 508-256-1300 Chelmsford, MA 01824-2820 Facsimile: 508-256-3599