On 27 Jan 1998 10:32:25 +0100 
 Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <frodef@acm.org> wrote:

 > I have to aol this one. We're trying to mount a NetBSD 1.3-served
 > partition on a 1.2 machine. The mount-command appears to work ok, but
 > it's impossible to read anything, even df complains it can't access
 > the directory. I've HUP'ed and restarted all daemons. Strangely,
 > mounting the same directory on a solaris machine works, so I can't
 > decide if this is a 1.2 or 1.3 problem.

The reason is because the Solaris system is using reserved ports for
the individual RPCs.  You can relax the restriction by using the
-noresvport option in your /etc/exports (see exports(5)).

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