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Date:      Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:02:37 -0400
From:      Bob Bomar <bob@ibsd.us>
To:        Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net>,  questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't connect to NFS Share
Message-ID:  <42AB7B9D.9080508@ibsd.us>
In-Reply-To: <709300D1-4473-4E62-8DA3-2DE68B52E297@charter.net>
References:  <709300D1-4473-4E62-8DA3-2DE68B52E297@charter.net>

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Charles Howse wrote:
| Hello, I'm new to the list.
| I've had a FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 server running for a long time,  but
| now I've decided to install 4.11 on a new machine.
|
| The problem I'm having is that I have nfs shares configured,  showmount
| -e shows me the correct information, all the nfs services  are running,
| and I have network connectivity between my PowerMac and  the new FreeBSD
| machine, but I can't mount or connect to the shares.
|
| When I open a root terminal on my Mac and issue "mount_nfs moe:/usr/
| local/www /Volumes/Storage/TMP", I get "Permission Denied".
| On the FreeBSD machine, I see "NFS request from unprivileged port
| (192.168.254.3:52514)".
|
| I've searched the list archives for "NFS request from unprivileged
| port" with no joy, and don't find anything else interesting on Google.
|
| Could someone please point me in the right direction to resolve this?
|
The Mac is trying the NFS request on a non priveleged port.  Try
setting setting nfs_reserve_port_only to NO in /etc/rc.conf


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Bob Bomar
bob@bomar.us
http://www.bomar.us/~bob
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