Does this help:

> NFS now uses reserved ports
> 
>   Description:
>         Earlier versions of NetBSD did not use a reserved (<= 1023)
>         port when making NFS client requests. When acting as a server
>         NetBSD now requires reserved ports by default.
> 
>         Old clients mounting a new server will receive a 'permission
>         denied' response when the directory is accessed. New clients
>         should work fine with old servers.
> 
>   Fix:
>         Add '-P' to the mount options in the old client's /etc/fstab,
>         or (less preferred), add '-noresvport,noresvmnt' to the
>         options on the new server's /etc/exports.

		David/absolute

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On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Brad Colbert wrote:

> Hey folks,
> 
>    I'm having a problem mounting a file system from a 1.3.2 i386
>    machine on to a 1.3 i386 machine.
> 
>    Here are the details:
> 
> camelot (1.3.2 i386):
> (/etc/exports)
>    /mnt/disk2a valhalla
> 
> valhalla (1.3 i386):
> mount -v -t nfs -i camelot:/mnt/disk2a /mnt
> 
> mount_nfs: bad MNT RPC: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too
> weak
> 
>    What does it mean that the credentials are too weak?  Is there
>    a special hosts.* file that I need to set?
> 
>    Thanks,
> 
>    Brad
>