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- From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Use of reserved port (on Ultrix)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.221201.13787@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Sender: thomas@mipsbx.lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
- Reply-To: thomas@lkg.dec.com
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Nov9.194156.9935@di.unipi.it>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:12:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.194156.9935@di.unipi.it>, luigi@pical2.uucp (Luigi Rizzo) writes:
- |>I have troubles with 386BSD in mounting a disk from a Decstation
- |>(running Ultrix 4.1 for what it matters). The server keeps replying
- |>
- |>Bad MNT RPC: RPC: Authentication error; why = Invalid client credential
- |>
- |>despite the fact the stuff in /etc/exports and /etc/hosts seems ok (and
- |>the server is set to avoid checking internet addresses anyway). People
- |>on the net suggested it's a problem with the use of reserved port for
- |>incoming connections: some machine expect connections to come from
- |>reserved ports, and 386bsd normally uses non-reserved addresses. Now, I
- |>recompiled the kernel and now connections come from ports in the range
- |>1023..512, but the problem remains. Might it be that Ultrix restricts
- |>even more the set of ports an NFS connection can come from ?
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- ULTRIX by default allows non-root mounts so it probably isn't that. My guesses
- would be that you have more than 8 groups or that your hostname/address don't
- match what's returned by gethostbyaddr/gethostbyname on the ULTRIX system.
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- Matt Thomas Internet: thomas@lkg.dec.com
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- Digital Equipment Corporation Disclaimer: This message reflects my own
- Littleton, MA warped views, etc.
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