Hi, folks. Brent is right. To work around, you would add the 'resvport' 
mount option on the macos side, e.g.

macbox# mount -o resvport linuxbox:/export/blah /blah

-Jan

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Jan vandenBerg
Johns Hopkins University
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
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On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Brent L. Bates wrote:

> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:52:09 -0400
> From: Brent L. Bates <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Scientific Linux Users mailing list <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: exporting filesystems to a MAC
> 
>      Apple changed the default port used for NFS on their systems to an
> `insecure' port(above 512?) starting with MacOS 10.4.  Before this, they used
> a more standard port.  I can't find my notes with the details at the moment,
> but I believe you have to force the MacTrash to use a more standard port by
> adding a `-P' option to the NFS daemon when it is first started.  Do a google
> search to find the details.
>      I haven't actually tried the above, because I worked around the problem.
>  I had the person ftp the files from the MacTrash to the Linux box when ever
> they needed updating.  I didn't find the real solution until much later and by
> that time I didn't want to confuse the user, so left things as is.
>      Also, in addition to the above, make sure the the
> /etc/hosts.allow,hosts.deny files do not prevent NFS mounts.  I had that
> problem along the way too.  I hope this helps some.  Good luck.
> 
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