nfs:// in Konqueror: "authorization not supported"

Post by **^rooker** » Sun May 04, 2008 9:48 pm

[PROBLEM]
When using Konqueror (on Kubuntu Feisty) to access an NFS shares, I ran into something like this:

Authorization failed, [server name] authorization not supported

The original german errormessage is:

Authentifizierung fehlgeschlagen, [server name] wird nicht unterstÃ¼tzt

The corresponding entry on the NFS server's /var/log/daemon.log is:

export request from 192.168.x.x
May 4 21:32:35 servername mountd[4461]: refused mount request from 192.168.x.x for /media/xxx/xxx (/media/xxx/xxx): illegal port 50045

[SOLUTION]
Basically, this means that Konqueror's KIO slave is not using a port <1024 - so it requires the "insecure" option to be set for that NFS export (in /etc/exports).

So I changed the line:

/media/xxx/xxx 192.168.x.x(ro,sync)

to look like this:

/media/xxx/xxx 192.168.x.x(ro,sync,insecure)

and reloaded the NFS config:

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sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server reload

However, I'm not really sure if that's a fix or a workaround, since an option called "insecure" doesn't give me a good feeling.

[REFERENCES]
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=279985
http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?sho ... ntry216650