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Date:      Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:24:59 -0600 (CST)
From:      mhughes@logroad.bridge.com (Michael Hughes)
To:        arr@oceanwave.com (A. Rich)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mountd -n is not allowing non-root mounts
Message-ID:  <199802041725.LAA23120@logroad.bridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <199802041712.MAA19387@shell2.shore.net> from "A. Rich" at Feb 4, 98 12:12:46 pm

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A. Rich said in email to me:
> The mount as a normal user on a UNIX machine was just a test that I thought
> (incorrectly so, it appears) should work.  Unfortunately, there is not
> /etc/fstab because these aren't UNIX machines that I'm trying to mount to;
> they're NCDs.  The NCDs can mount files off of a BSDI machine configured
> exactly the same way but can't mount the FreeBSD filesystems.
> 
> If I run tcpdump on the FreeBSD machine when I try to read a file from the
> NCD, I can see four udp packets but the NCD claims that permission is denied
> to the file (And the permissions on the files and all directories leading to
> the files are world readable, I checked).
> 
> The only thing I can come up with is a mountd problem.  Other suggestions?
> 
> -- 
> Amy Rich <arr@oceanwave.com>                    Oceanwave Consulting, Inc.
> UNIX Systems Administration Consultant          12 Hines Way
> http://www.oceanwave.com/                       Marblehead, MA  01945
> Phone: 781-631-6160                             Fax: 781-631-6160

Amy,
  Try setting weak_mountd_authentication to YES.

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