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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.
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References: <3442kk$55j@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <34457e$rpj@mail.fwi.uva.nl>
Reply-To: "Gordon Ross" <gwr@mc.com>
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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.

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