NFS Mounting, client credentials too weak

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:40:58PM +0100, Joachim Dagerot wrote:
> 
> On 2005-01-26 Kris Kennaway  wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:25:08AM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote:
> >> On Jan 25 at 12:04, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:39:59PM +0100, Joachim Dagerot wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm trying to mount from a freeSBIE system (freeBSD 5.3) to my freeBSD
> >> >> server (5.1) when I get the errormessage: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: 
> >> >> Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak.
> >> >>
> >> >> What can I do?
> >> >
> >> > Try to mount as root, not a nonprivileged user.
> >> 
> >> Unfortunately I ran into the same situation concerning the error message 
> >> above. I *was* root when it happened. I thought perhaps the problem was
> >> that I was *su'd* to root, so I connected a monitor to the client, 
> >> logged in *as* root then tried to mount the remote share (from my office 
> >> server). Still the same result.
> >
> >> To further complicate (or simplify) things, *both* machines are 
> >> 5.3-RELEASE, and in fact the machines themselves are as close to clones 
> >> of one another as you can get. I mention this because inconsistencies 
> >> between local conditions on both machines thus becomes a non-issue.
> >
> >What two machines?  Above you said one is a FreeSBIE-based 5.3 system
> >and the other a 5.1 system.
> 
> I am me and me is Joachim. Colin is Colin and never shall their system be mixed up.

OK, thanks for clarifying :-)

Are you running the full set of nfs daemons on client and server
(nfs_server_enable/nfs_client_enable in rc.conf)?

Kris
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