SunOS/Ultrix NFS funny ...

[Mike Iglesias]

In article <1991Apr8.181949.26075 at dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> shoat at .glasgow.ac.uk (Mr. David Shoat) writes:
>Apologies if this has been on before (I reckon it must have). I'm trying to
>mount some filesystems on an SLC running 4.1.1 from a DECsystem 5000 server
>running Ultrix V4.01. RPC keeps giving me hassle and telling me that the
>client credentials are wrong. NFS mounts work OK in the other direction and
>I'm not using any funny security stuff. The mount daemon on the Ultrix server
>doesn't even check internet addresses. Any ideas?

Make sure that root on the Sun is in 8 or fewer groups, otherwise
Ultrix will reject the mount request with the message you saw..  I've
never been able to find out if this is a Sun problem or Ultrix
problem. 



Mike Iglesias
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