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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: amd and reserved port trouble
To: ivanov@nfsun1.jinr.dubna.su (A.P.Ivanov)
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 18:55:54 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <325906D2.41C67EA6@nf.jinr.ru> from "A.P.Ivanov" at "Oct 7, 96 01:34:10 pm"
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>    The problem is that our Sun's (SunOS 4.1.4) sysadmin don't want
> to run rpc.mountd -n. But besides I recently switched from Linux
> where I had the same version of amd compiled and running without
> any problems (it uses ports<1024 for mounting). I'm not a Unix
> guru, but it seems that kernel doesn't allow amd process to use
> ports<1024. Or may be I misunderstand smth? Is it curable?

You are sure the filesystems are exported to your system, are you?
showmount -e <sunbox> and domainname are your friends here.

-Guido