Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:14:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "A. Rich" <arr@oceanwave.com> Cc: nik@iii.co.uk, Keith Jones <keith@blueberry.co.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mountd -n is not allowing non-root mounts Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204131434.15689R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802041949.OAA08413@shell2.shore.net>
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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, A. Rich wrote: > nik> Some PCNFS implementations send their (legitimate) requests from a port > nik> that's > 1023, which is the wrong thing to do. The -n flag is a work > nik> around for the NFS *server* to let it allow these requests. > > Right, and that's what's failing to work. The NCDs are trying to mount an > exported directory and fail with the error "Permission Denied." Mountd on the > server is running with the -n flag but doesn't appear to be servicing the > mount requests. If I have a BSDI machine set up exactly the same way, the NCD > is quite happy to mount the exported filesystems. For some reason, the > FreeBSD machine is denying the NCDs mount permission. At least that's what I > think I've narrowed it down to (I checked all of the actual file permissions, > which are fine). What does your /etc/exports file look like? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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