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From: avonruff@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Al Von Ruff)
Subject: Re: Problem with nfs mount to HPUX 8.07
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In article <mike.728564132@nuustak> mike@nuustak.csir.co.za (Michael Gunning) writes:
>I am running 386bsd on a 33Mhz 386 with co-processor, adaptec 1542b and
>a western digital 16 bit ethernet card.  I have encountered an error when
>trying to do an NFS mount from the bsd machine to an HP 700 series, running
>HPUX 8.07.  The error encountered is:
>
>Bad MNT RPC: RPC: Authentication error; why = Invalid client credential

This is a well-known problem with HPUX. HPUX will not authenticate if
your root uid is contained in more than 8 groups. Check your /etc/group file,
or use the "group" command as root to see how many groups root is in. If you 
reduce the number of groups, you will be able to mount.

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