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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:14:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.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
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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  
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