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Date:      Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:18:47 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        "Svensson, Martin" <Martin.Svensson@eds.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NFS Trouble with NT-Clients
Message-ID:  <3BBB5687.77045914@mindspring.com>
References:  <216F0557F54BFA43A0DF62156BAE18A201E73765@intmail001.driftdom.com>

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"Svensson, Martin" wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> We're using a FreeBSD 4.0 installation as an NFS-server and we have
> NT-server as clients accessing them using the software diskaccess.
> The trouble is that sometimes the client can't access the NFS shares and we
> get "Mount request from unprivileged port" on the server. When searching for
> this topic I found that you can use a -p option to the mount command, but
> that isn't available in NT. So does anyone know how we can solve this issue?
> 
> My rc.conf has a line saying: nfs_reserved_port_only="NO" .
> 
> I'm grateful for any suggestions.

You probably have an rc.conf that doesn't match your rc.network
file.

The answer is that you want to run mountd with "-n" (you should
type "man 8 mountd" for details).

You can also use "sysctl -w vfs.nfs.nfs_privport=0".

Next time, ask on -questions.

-- Terry

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