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- From: surfdog@ossi.com (John Onusko)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Solaris 2.1 NFS weirdness
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 12:44:47 -0800
- Organization: Open Systems Solutions Inc.
- Lines: 36
- Message-ID: <1k1jfvINN18t@akasha.ossi.com>
- References: <C1DtA8.5w4@lysator.liu.se> <lm84caINN6r5@news.bbn.com>
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- cbarber@bbn.com (Chris Barber) writes:
-
- >In article <C1DtA8.5w4@lysator.liu.se> pen@lysator.liu.se
- >(Peter Eriksson) writes:
-
- >>We're having severe problems getting our SS1+ that runs Solaris 2.1
- >>to NFS mount filesystems from a HP9K3?? running HP-UX 8.0 and a
- >>Pyramid 90x running dualPort OSx 4.1. The error we get from our
- >>SS1+ when trying to NFS mount anything from these machines is:
- >>
- >> "...RPC: Authentication error; why = Invalid client credential"
- >>
- >>Has anyone else seen this and have any suggestion how to fix this?
-
- >Sounds like you are running NIS+ on the Solaris machine and it is
- >unable to get authentication credentials from the HP machine. I
- >think what you need to do is to run NIS+ in compatability mode
- >and create some local credentials for the HP machine. At our site,
- >we have had all sorts of problems using NIS+, and have given up on
- >using it at all and merely set up our machines as NIS(YP) clients.
-
- I had this problem last week. It had nothing to do with nis(+). The problem
- was that "root" was in too many groups in /etc/group. I made sure that root
- was only in six or so groups and the problem went away. The bug is in Pyramid's
- RPC library.
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