NFS

[Lou Brown]

The stock 2.2 kernel is NFS ver 2.0.  Most UNIXs are using ver 3.0
however SGI has released 3.0 for Linux.  I was having the same problem
with my HPUX box until I installed NFS 3.0.  Stuff works good now.
Lou

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/

Leonard Thomas wrote:
> 
> Hi
> I have had some of the same problems and did end up going back to
> the nfs-server that I was running on RH5.2.  I would be interested is
> getting working a little better if possible.
> 
> On a related note.  I can easily access a a number of nfs mounted disks from
> my linux box, but if I try to access my linux disk  from another machine I have
> no luck.  The other machines can not access the disk or lack permissions.  The
> error message states both as possibilites.  The other machines are running Irix
> 6.2 or
> Irix 5.3.
> 
> Len
> 
> Sam Clippinger wrote:
> 
> > When last we left our heroes, phase at booyaka.com had just said:
> > > i thought this might have something to do with my recent
> > > kernel configuration experiments, but i checked the
> > > configuration for my running kernel and it appears that
> > > NFS support is in there.  i even tried booting the stock
> > > redhat 6.1 kernel to no avail.  neither the NFS-HOWTO
> > > nor the knfsd documentaion were very helpful, so i guess
> > > i'm hoping someone understands the error and is willing
> > > to help me fix it.  thanks in advance.
> >
> > Good luck -- if you get this working, please post a message explaining how.
> > I've tried to get knfsd to work several times since it was first introduced,
> > with no success.  If you haven't already, make sure that portmapper is running,
> > make sure that the locking service is running (rpc.lockd?) and make sure you've
> > applied all of the latest knfsd patches to your kernel before you compiled.  I
> > have it on good authority that the knfsd stuff can be _made_ to work, but
> > apparently my particular case is not possible yet (NFS-booting diskless
> > workstations from a central server).
> >
> > I finally gave up on it and went back to Olaf Kirch's nfs-server package.  I'll
> > try knfsd again when 2.4 comes out in a couple of years. ;)
> >
> >                                 -sam
> >
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> > =============randomly selected quote===no relevance to the above=============
> >         "There's never been a simpler time.  Never.  In all of human
> > history, everything has always been as complex as it is now.  The people
> > change.  The technology changes.  But the...forces at work, whatever it
> > is that drives us to _be_ human, that's what's always the same."
> >                                   - Garfield Reeves-Stevens, "Federation"
> >
> 
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