NFS mount from an AIX client (reprise)

Today I needed to mount a linux nfs exported directory from a very old AIX server:

AIX prompt> uname -a
AIX matusalem 3 4 00202856E800

This time, I had to do an additional operation to my previous notes about nfs and AIX.
The mount command issued on the AIX matusalem client failed with the error

vmount: Not owner

and the linux server reported

Apr 22 12:21:03 linuxbox kernel: nfsd: request from insecure port (192.168.5.5:34506)!

in /var/log/messages file, where 192.168.5.5 is the old AIX IP address.
After adding the word “insecure” in the nfs option of my /etc/exports file in the linux server I was able to mount the nfs share.

/opt/share/dir 192.168.5.5(rw,sync,insecure)

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