Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!think!cayman!chris
From: chris@cayman.COM (Chris North)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: GatorBox & mt XINU
Summary: Hints
Keywords: GatorBox, mt XINU
Message-ID: <3267@cayman.COM>
Date: 29 Jun 89 15:01:35 GMT
References: <238@linod.UUCP>
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge Ma
Lines: 45

In article <238@linod.UUCP>, brett@linod.UUCP (Dr. Michael R. Brett) writes:
> 
> we have a little problem with our GatorBox (GatorSoftware 1.25).
> The GBox works fine for AppleShare access on our SUNs (SUN OS 4.0,
> SUN UNIX 4.2) but refuses to connect to our VAX (mt XINU 4.3 BSD UNIX).
> We checked the GBox's configuration, the /etc/hosts, /etc/hosts.equiv files
> on the VAX, but aren't able to fix our problem. The only hints we have are
> the following lines from the GBox's Message Log:
> 
> 00:00:03:20 L2    0 AFP: command 12
> 00:00:03:21 L4    0 MOUNT: Mount of /etc failed with error 13: Ownership
> 		    violation
> 00:00:03:21 L4 d0d1 AFP: Authetication using files failed
> 00:00:03:21 L2 d0d1 some login problem (LoginComp)
> 00:00:03:21 L2 c18d [SSSReplyMsg] ASP session maintainer completed.
> 00:00:03:21 L2 c18d SSSReceiveMsg: GetRequest error.
> 
> Any suggestions ?


  The GatorBox mounts the /etc directory to do password and group 
authentication.  There are basically three possibilities here.

1.  Either the / or /etc directory should be in the exports list 
    (/etc/exports).  Note: if this is a security issue, you can 
    restrict the exportation to just the GatorBox.  

2.  The VAX has the kernel switch nfs_portmon turned on.  In this
    case a certain set of ports are marked as privileged and any
    device making a request for a non-privileged port is denied
    access.  You can either disable privilege ports (rpc.mountd -n)
    or use the newest version of GatorSoftware (1.4.0) which uses
    the privileged ports.

3.  The /etc directory is not readable and executable by everyone.

I hope this helps!

-Chris

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Chris North                                chris@cayman.COM
Cayman Systems
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