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Re: Release note inaccuracies?

On Sunday, Jan 2001 at 11:12:11 Doug Clements wrote:
> >No. Using the Linux box as an NFS server, OS X as the client, OS X fails
> >to mount the server correctly. I just did it again to refresh my memory.
> >It mounts, but then any attempt to access that directory (beyond cd'ing
> >into it) gives an "Operation not permitted" error. I'm doing this as
> >root, of course.
>
> I had this problem as well.. You have to use the -P and -U flags with
> mount_nfs (I think... I'm away from my OSX machine) It has something to do
> with using non-privilaged ports. My problem was with an OpenBSD server, thou
> gh.

Yeah, by default the linux nfs server (ugh, which one?) and most of the
BSD nfs servers require you to come from a low numbered port, as some
kind of reassurance that you're actually root on the machine making the
request. The servers usually have a flag that will drop this requirement,
as things like X Terminals and such have traditionally come from
high numbered ports and there is no way to change that.
If NFS mount requests by Darwin are coming from high numbered ports by default,
changing that to low numbered ports should probably be something to be
considered.

Rob



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