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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9412.0. "'RPC: Authentication error' 'Client credential too weak'" by KAHLUA::LEMONS (And we thank you for your support.) Mon Apr 07 1997 13:07

    Digital UNIX V4.0 (Rev. 386) client
    Digital UNIX V4.0A (Rev. 464) server
    
    I'm trying to nfs mount a disk on the server system from the client
    system, and see:
    
    }wawa-14 : mount -t nfs robot1:/usr/kits ttemp
    Bad MNT RPC: robot1:/usr/kits: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client
    credential too weak
    
    I've mounted this remote disk successfully on other systems that appear
    to be similar in configuration.  What causes this error?  What should I
    look at to diagnose it?
    
    Thanks!
    tl
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9412.1KAHLUA::LEMONSAnd we thank you for your support.Mon Apr 07 1997 13:435
    Well, I found one reason why it didn't work: on the client side, where
    I thought I was superuser, well, I wasn't.  When I did become
    superuser, this worked.
    
    tl
9412.2same error from non-UNIX clientsolid.zko.dec.com::tamara::mansurJoe MansurFri May 09 1997 10:5111
I'm getting this same error when trying to mount from a non-UNIX client.  Is there 
any way to get more detail about the error cause (an error log somewhere or extra 
logging options on the nfs server?)?

Are there restrictions on the client-port-number a client must use?  Is there a way 
to get the server to show what the client port number is?

Thanks,

Joe