----- Original Message ----- From: "Rainchik, Aleksandr (MED, Non GE)" Aleksandr.Rainchik@amermsx.med.ge.com To: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 11:59 AM Subject: mount: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak
Hello,
From what I've found, NetApp filer will refuse mount requests if the source port of that request is less than 1024, or "unprivileged". The problem we have right now is accessing NetApp trough the firewall.
So we have a couple of NetApps and Sun servers that are behind port-mapping firewall. I can mount everything from Sun, but when we are trying to mount something from netapp, I get this error message on a client
client% mount netapp1:/some_dir mount: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak
With tcpdump I see how mount requests from client (client.678 -> netap1.sunrpc)are being translated on firewall: firewall1.61128 -> netap1.sunrpc
My question is, if there is a way to put netapp in a less secure mode, to allow mount requests from unprivileged ports?
Nope. And it's a bad idea for your Sun too; it is a security problem.
Why can't you just tell your firewall not to change the port # of the request, or select one below 1024?
Bruce