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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!col.hp.com!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!unix.sri.com!csl.sri.com!news!gilham From: gilham@lily.csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD, AMD and Suns Date: 30 Aug 1995 20:52:00 GMT Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International Lines: 42 Message-ID: <GILHAM.95Aug30135200@lily.csl.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lily.csl.sri.com Hello, I've found a problem trying to set up a FreeBSD box to work among a set of Sun file servers and workstations. The problem is that I don't know how to tell AMD to use a reserved port when it tries to talk to the Sun file servers. I.e. if I do mount_nfs -P etc. I get a reserved port for NFS and everything works fine. If I don't use the -P argument, I get `permission denied' when I try to access the remotely mounted directory. The problem is, there doesn't seem to be any way to tell AMD that you want it to use a reserved port. I'm trying to use the NIS mount maps that we use when running AMD on Suns; the automount succeeds but the remote mounted directory isn't accessible and the following message appears on the console of the Suns: NFS request from unprivileged port. nfs_server: weak authentication, source IP address=<FreeBSD machine's ip address> This is a killer for me. If I can't do automounting, I'll probably have to kiss FreeBSD goodbye. I'd appreciate any help here, or any pointers. I.e. can I configure a kernel that will always use a reserved port for NFS? I glanced over the config file and kernel source but couldn't find anything (I'm not experienced with the kernel source so that doesn't mean too much, though). Thanks, -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com King Christ, this world is all aleak, / And life preservers there are none, And waves that only He may walk / Who dared to call Himself a man. -- e. e. cummings, from Jehovah Buried, Satan Dead