From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 18:36:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A1C01065691 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:36:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout022.mac.com (asmtpout022.mac.com [17.148.16.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 503FE8FC26 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:36:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp022.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K6900B43VOJDA60@asmtp022.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <6BE77E9C-4EB3-43CD-A4AE-9853122850EA@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: lysergius2001 In-reply-to: Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:36:19 -0700 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.928.1) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RPC: Authentication error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:36:20 -0000 Hi-- On Aug 27, 2008, at 10:30 AM, lysergius2001 wrote: > rpcinfo -p server results in : > rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Authentication error; why = > Client > credential too weak > > ps-aux | grep rpcbind shows the rpc daemon running... > > /etc/hosts.allow has the names of the 3 machines on my network... > > Any insights would be most welcome as I am clean out of ideas... duh? If you check the logs on the server, you'll probably see something like: mountd[95]: mount request from 10.0.0.20 from unprivileged port ...the mount or rpcinfo requests use a high port if run as a normal user and that gives an error; try running these as root from a full root-login (ie, login as root on console or use "su -l", not via sudo). Regards, -- -Chuck