Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Kurt Nowak Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Apollo NFS Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 45 Message-ID: <4047778.1281.1334968926059.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yncc41> References: <10562522.584.1334602794227.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynmf4> NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.207.125.90 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1334968926 20410 127.0.0.1 (21 Apr 2012 00:42:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:42:06 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <10562522.584.1334602794227.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynmf4> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=72.207.125.90; posting-account=fhPgOgoAAAAh0HKrCej6k-q41rN0jMVe User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Received-Bytes: 3268 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.apollo:150 On Monday, April 16, 2012 11:59:54 AM UTC-7, Kurt Nowak wrote: > Hey guys... >=20 > So I installed Apollo NFS v4.1 on my OS 10.4. The installation and setup = went well (I think...) and I am able to nfs mount the Apollo from both my S= olaris boxes (Solaris 8 and 10) as well as with a Sparc running OpenBSD....= No problems there - read/writes, and permission changes, etc all work fine.= .. The problem lies when I try to go the other way and mount NFS shares on = Solaris and OpenBSD from the Apollo. Here is the basic scenario: >=20 > Apollo: machine name: chicago > Sparc 20: machine name: berkeley >=20 > from the Apollo (set up a mount point /chicago) >=20 > mount -t nfs berkeley:/usr/chicago /chicago >=20 > ...mount executes fine... >=20 > But when I try to write a file to the foreign nfs file system, eg "touch = test" it just hangs...eventually an hour later or so, it completes. When I = list the file with just 'ls' i can see the file but when i do an ls -al, it= hangs again. I dont know whats going on...Perhaps it has do do with ACLs. = Both machines have the same user account and unix ID that I am using to wri= te to the share. However, I still need to check to see if the root unix IDs= match... Anyone know what I might be missing? I seem to have exhausted my = ideas... All the appropriate daemons are running...portmap, nfs, rpc.mountd= , tcpd, etc...I set up the rc.nfs file to the defaults. It seems like an is= sue with the nfs client but the server is fine... >=20 > Any ideas I should check for? >=20 > My whole idea behind this exersize is to see if I can create an AA on a r= emote nfs mount point to solve the disk space shortage problem. :) >=20 > I read through the Apollo Archive...There is NFS info, but there is no in= formation on mounting a foreign machine... Only mounting the Apollo's share= s. :( >=20 > -Kurt Problem solved!! Apparently not running the /etc/xpager daemon it what caus= es everything to hang... I couldn't find much information on this "external= paging daemon" only that its required for to mount a cdrom on an apollo...= .Anyone know? Anyway, NFS is now running as expected :)