Need help with nfsv4 and krb5 access denied

Herbert Poeckl freebsdml at ist.tugraz.at
Fri Jun 29 11:25:03 UTC 2012


On 06/28/2012 10:01 PM, Ian Lepore wrote:
> When something in software works fine with one NIC but not another
> (nearly-) identical one, the first thing that comes to my mind is that
> the MAC address on the card is being used by the software as a sort of
> UUID.  I had that happen with a commercial software once; when I changed
> NICs in the machine the software stopped working and said it wasn't
> registered on that machine.  (I would have been annoyed except this
> sophisticed "security system" was circumvented by deleting a file that
> wasn't even hard to find, and it automatically re-authorized itself on
> the next run using the new MAC address.)

That came to my mind, too.

The thing is, I can set any MAC address I want on both NICs. The result
is still the same. The first one is working, the second one not.

Greetings,
 Herbert


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