FC8 and NFS service
Michael W Cocke
cocke at catherders.com
Mon Feb 25 00:09:23 UTC 2008
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 at tmr.com>
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>the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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