I wonder if this will fix my problem trying to mount a Fedora 7 NFS export from a Sabayon 3.4 workstation. Let me go see if we let the magic smoke out of the chips... Mike- On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:19:23 -0500, you wrote: >Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Mike Iglesias wrote: >>> Bill Davidsen wrote: >>>> Exactly, but even with secure NFS off I still get stuff like: >>>> Feb 21 21:50:33 posidon mountd[26030]: refused mount request from >>>> 192.168.2.17 for /common (/common >>>> ): illegal port 60080 >>> >>> Look at "man exports". You need to use the "insecure" option on the >>> export entry to get it to accept any port instead of "secure" ports >>> (<1024). >>> >> I'll set it up tomorrow, but I see no difference between the "insecure" >> option for one export and the disabling of securenfs which I have in the >> sysconfig file. I also note that some of the working clients are using >> port 32770, which is above both 1024 and 32768... >> >> I can try it, but secure NFS should just flat be gone. >> >And using the "insecure" export solves the problem. The securenfs option >in the /etc/sysconfig/nfs file seems to apply to Kerberos security >levels, as documented in "man 5 nfs" under "sec=" > >>> So something like: >>> >>> /common 192.168.2.17(rw,insecure) >>> >>> would allow 192.168.2.17 to mount /common read/write from an insecure >>> port. >>> >>> If you're not using an /etc/exports, something like >>> >>> exportfs -o rw,insecure 192.168.2.17:/common >>> >>> should work. >>> >So I'm down to one issue (so far), which is re-exporting an SMB mounted >filesystem as NFS. I currently use an FC1 machine to do that, as recent >releases don't include smbfs and the server won't talk using cifs. > >My thought on that is to export a directory using samba and see if I can >get the old machine to write in that. The SMB is on a "Windows95RT" >device controller, some real time hack of Win95, and can't be upgraded. >> >> Thanks for the thought, I'll let you know. >> >Double thanks, at least for the first server the problem is solved! > >-- >Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from >the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,
