Re: [Wylug-help] NFS woes :(
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Martin Rowe wrote:
> I've just put Debian 2.2r3[1] on my work box (alongside Mandrake 7.1) and
> I'm getting
>
> nfs bindresvport: Permission denied
Are you doing this as root?
the bindresvport man page seems to indicate this is a possible problem?
> when trying to mount some NFS shares from our AS/400s. This works fine
> if I boot back into Mandrake, and the NFS server on the AS/400 is
> running fine. A
>
> showmount -e dev1
>
> does list all the available shares, so I'm assuming it's something I've
> done (or more likely not done) on the client side that's causing me
> grief. Including the verbose option to mount doesn't give any more
> output, and I can't find anything in the logs to indicate a problem.
> Running mount in with -f happily reports
> dev1:/it on /mnt/dev1/it type nfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>
> One slight complication is that the AS/400's implementation of NFS
> (version 2) at OS/400 V4R4[2] or below only accepts a UDP connection.
> Recent versions of mount are TCP based (so I'm told), and won't work.
Doubt it. NFS is usually run UDP. The man page for mount and nfs should
indicate exactly what the defaults and options are. Usually is for default of
UDP with an tcp option.
> The
> workaround is to use an older version - in my case I've been using the
> Mandrake 7.0 mount command successfully (on 7.1, that is). In case there
> is some issue with that, does anyone have a Slink mount binary I could
> try (I think it needs to be pre 2.10).
>
> Any ideas or suggestions of where else to look appreciated.
>
> Regards, Martin
>
> [1] dist-upgraded to sid - it's my desktop box rather than a production
> server :)
> [2] Which is what we're running - it's fixed at V4R5, but we won't be
> upgrading anytime soon :(
>
>
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