NFSv4 and sec=sys

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 03:41:46PM +0200, Cristiano Cumer wrote:
> I was trying to use a NFSv4 export with the the the sys security  
> flavor but without success.
> 
> I export the directory with the following line
> 
> /export/others/xxxxx   10.x.x.x 
> (rw,nohide,insecure,no_subtree_check,async)
> 
> This works perfect if I mount it with nfsv3 but fails with permission  
> denied if I try to specify "-t nfs4" on the client side and no  
> usefull data is outputted by the logs on the server and on the client.

The exported paths work differently in v4; see
http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/using-nfsv4.html#exports.

A lot of people run across this problem, so it's on our to-do list to
fix it, and I think there's some agreement about how to do it--but
noone's really started yet.

--b.