ajg@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Arnold Goldberg) (03/22/91)
Sorry if this insults anyone's intelligence, but it's got me stumped. I'm trying to remotely mount a Chromatics disk (SYS5, has nfs and rfs) on a sun4 (4.1.1). I'm positive that I have everything set up right because it works sometimes. 95% of the time, though, I get RPC errors. When I try to mount the partition I usually get an error along the lines of mount:ppr07:/ server not responding RPC:Authentication error why=Invalid client credential mount:giving up on /phoenix Sometimes mount actually manages to mount it, and then I can 'cd' into it and it will be there but the next time around i'll get RPC=Authentication error. Any help would really be appreciated. Arnold Goldberg
kepowers@mbunix.mitre.org (Powers) (03/22/91)
>mount:ppr07:/ server not responding RPC:Authentication error why=Invalid client >credential >mount:giving up on > /phoenix Check to see if your file system is being exported secure. If it is, you'll have to import it secure to avoid trouble. -- ---------- Kelly-Erin Powers The MITRE Corporation Unix Systems Group Burlington Road (617) 271-2143 Bedford, MA 01730 kepowers@mbunix.mitre.org linus!mbunix!kepowers
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (03/23/91)
I've seen two different things that cause the "Invalid client credential" error you mentioned. The first is that the host making the mount request is not putting a FDQN into the "host" field in the request structure that rpc.mountd sees, and it's in a different domain or something so rpc.mountd can't do a gethostbyname() on the name and end up with the same IP address as the message indicates that it's coming from. The second (if I recall correctly) is a line starting with a space in /etc/hosts on the machine from which you're trying to mount. Such a line caused the nameserver library code (on an Ultrix machine) to mess up and misresolve the host name of the client making the mount request, leading to the problem described above. When you figure out the problem, I'd be interested in knowing what it was, if it was something other than these two possibilities or what kepowers@mbunix.mitre.org suggested (importing the filesystem secure). Please post what you find. Good luck! -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710