In message <9705201703.ZM3882@picasso.me.ic.ac.uk>,
     Rob Black wrote:

> [...]
> 
> This sounds like you may be running NFS on an insecure port on the Linux box
> with RiscBSD configured to reject insecure NFS. I don't know enough about Linux
> to know how to tell nfs to run on a secure port. It should be in one of the nfs
> man pages though.

You are right, Rob. I just tried it.
The directory has to be exported with the "insecure" option in
/etc/exports on the nfs server. Something like this:

   /home  (rw,insecure)

My first thought was that it has to do with the mapping of uids.

> Rob
> 

Regards,
   Stefan
   
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Stefan Voss
(voss@yoda.in-berlin.de)