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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems mounting Linux machinesdisk to FreeBSD machine
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 03:38:44 -0800
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To: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com>

Stan Brown wrote:
> Nov  3 15:17:24 yogi nfsd[200]: NFS request from koala originated on insecure port, psychoanalysis suggested

Goddamn smartass operating system. :-)

>         Dooes anyone have a clue what's goin on here & how I can fix it?

If you're mounting these Linux filesystems with mount, add the -P flag
(and read the man page for mount_nfs while you're at it).  If you're
doing it through fstab, add the ``secure'' flag to your options (man
fstab).
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project