On 10-May-2001 cjanman@www.devon.gov.uk wrote:

When I try to mount an NFS filesystem that has been expoted from a SuSE 7.1 box on another box (running AIX 4.3.3 - but I don't think this is relevant), the mount fails. The SuSE /var/log/messages shows that NFS has authorised the request, but then reports that the kernel nfsd has rejected it as it comes from an "insecure port". I don't know why the kernel nfsd is getting a look in as I've specified USE_KERNEL_NFSD="no" in /etc/rc.config (and remembered to run SuSEconfig).

Filesystems exported from the AIX box mount with no problems on the SuSE box. SuSE 7.1 has recentlly replaced RedHat 6.1 on this particular box and NFS was working fine under RedHat.

These are the log entries: ---snip--- May 3 10:50:48 ns2 rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from 159.15.129.3:802 for /usr/shr (/usr/shr) May 3 10:50:48 ns2 kernel: nfsd: request from insecure port (9f0f8103:53432)! ---snip---

Anyone got any advice on how to get this working, please?

Hi, I would stronly suggest that you use the kernel version of NFS as it is of a much latter version of NFS than the user space version. I have not had any real problems using the SuSE 7.1 Kernel version, but only using it between different Linux boxes. If you can't get NFS working using the Kernel version it might be worth posting your problems to nfs@lists.sourceforge.net they are the maintainers of the Kernel NFS and appear to be quite responsive. Regards, Graham Smith ----------------------------------