NFS between het. platforms (sun and chromatics)

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

  I've seen two different things that cause the "Invalid client credential"
error you mentioned.

  The first is that the host making the mount request is not putting a FDQN
into the "host" field in the request structure that rpc.mountd sees, and it's
in a different domain or something so rpc.mountd can't do a gethostbyname() on
the name and end up with the same IP address as the message indicates that
it's coming from.

  The second (if I recall correctly) is a line starting with a space in
/etc/hosts on the machine from which you're trying to mount.  Such a line
caused the nameserver library code (on an Ultrix machine) to mess up and
misresolve the host name of the client making the mount request, leading to
the problem described above.

  When you figure out the problem, I'd be interested in knowing what it was,
if it was something other than these two possibilities or what
kepowers at mbunix.mitre.org suggested (importing the filesystem secure).  Please
post what you find.

  Good luck!

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