>From: Thomas Seidmann <seidmann@dcs.elf.stuba.sk>
>
>Hi,
>
>I've built a complete system from the current sources (7/26/97) and
>everything works fine except of the NFS server. I am able to export a
>filesystem, mount it on a client host, but this on isn't aparently able
>to do even a 'stat' on the mounted filesystem. All it gets is a
>'permission denied'. The whole thing worked with a prevcious snapshot of
>NetBSD/pmax 1.2D. Did I miss something? TIA.

Your server is expecting the NFS requests from a reserved port, and your
client is not sending NFS requests from a reserved port.

Add the -noresvport option in the relevant /etc/exports lines, or
upgrade the client.

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