What does the message “BAD MNT RPC: RPC Authentication error; why = Invalid client credential” mean when I try to mount something from another machine?
Hellmuth Michaelis (hm@hcshh.hcs.de) offers the solution to this relatively common problem: You have to make sure that the user “root” is not present in more than 8 entries in the “/etc/group” – file on the *BSD machine. Simply remove some entries and the NFS mounts will succeed. 6.4.4 : What does the message “Bad MNT RPC: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak” mean when I try to mount something from another machine? This problem is a standard NFS problem; it simply means that your user number is not one of the ones that can mount this NFS. Normally, you will get this message when you are trying to mount a filesystem from a machine that allows ‘root’ to mount an NFS, but limits other users. Another documented problem with “client credentials being too weak” is the dichotomy of SunOS and 4.4 based systems. SunOS, and other commercial systems, do not allow NFS commands to come in on anything but a reserved port. There are several places that need to be addressed if
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