NFS-Message

[Jörn Reitwießner]

Hello,

I get every 2-5 minutes the following message in the syslog-file:

vmunix: NOTICE: nfs_server: weak authentication

The HPUX-11.0-workstation is configured as a NFS-Server with one NFS-export.
Also the workstation has mounted different NFS-exports from other HPUX-server.

Can somebody tell me what this message mean and what I have to do to correct this error?

THX!!

[Sunil Sharma_1]

Hi,

I got some info for this error but not about HP UX.You can try it out.

have a look on this

SunOS is particularly insidious at this point. The mount succeeds, but then everything else after that fails. This means that your FreeBSD or NetBSD system will return ann EACCESS error whenever you try to grab a file from the NFS filesystem. The solution (tested in FreeBSD) is to include the 'resvport' flag like this:

# mount -o resvport server:/fs /mnt_point


read full doc on
http://www.ggd.nsu.ru/~serg/bsdfaq/part2.html

Sunil

[Steven E. Protter]

Good First step:

Patching.

A current quarterly patch release should be installed.

Go to the itrc main page and pull down and install NFS patches, one might have this error message in its notes.

If the system is old, I'm wondering what version of NFS you have on it. Going to the latest is a good idea.

SEP

[Jörn Reitwießner]

Why do i have to patch a system although it still has worked one weak before with the same settings?

[Jörn Reitwießner]

I have studied the different patches which could apply for the problem. But i didn´t find a patch which fix the problem. Have someone a idea to solve the proble