sorry, my last message tend to be incomplete. so if the server goes down or say your case, if the cable is unplugged, then ofcourse the client freezes but as soon as the server(i.e. Host A in your case) is up every thing becomes normal.. another thing to mark out.. i was playing some songs using mpg321(the command utility) residing on a nfs mounted directory. after some time i had to shutdown my nfs server. so as the nfs server on the server(Host A) went down the song stopped playing, but it didn't kill the process, instead it waited for the server to get up and respond.. soon when the server(Host A) was up, my songs began back from the place they had paused... hope this could clearify that it isn't necessary to do a hard boot on the client machine(Host B)..
rrs On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > yes, it does happen thatway,, but even then i never had to hard boot my > client machine(in your case Host B) because i had soft mounted the /home > on my client machine :-) > > rrs > On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Jeff Lane wrote: > > > Oh, no... you misunderstand me.. I dont mean that the server needed to > > be hard booted, but the client computer.. > > > > for example, you have a server A that is handing out all employee home > > dirs via NFS. So, I go to Host B and log in. Now, NIS handles all the > > logon stuff, and then mounts my home dir on Host B via NFS. Now, IF > > something should happen to cause the NFS connection to Server A drop, > > and this could be anything from a momentarily unplugged cable, to > > whatever, then Host B will have to be hard booted, because the machine > > stops functioning if a user is logged in and his home directory suddenly > > disappears. > > > > Been there, done that... more times than I care to remember... ;) > > > > > > > > Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > > > >It isn't necessary that the server need to be hard booted to get it back. > > >pass appropriacte parameters to nfs and you are in the run. > > > > > >rrs > > >On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jeff Lane wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
