> From: "Steven W. Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Cartman List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Hedwig List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> redhat-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Problems with NIS Linux server and either Solaris or SCO as client.
>
>
> Both SCO and Solaris would not talk to the Linux platform when I made it a
> NIS server. When I made the Solaris platform the server, the SCO box
> talked nicely with the Solaris server.
What Linux release are you running and what set up have you done?
Do you have a /etc/exports with appropriate entries?
Have you started nfsd and nfslock, either manually or automagically?
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfslock start
(or corresponding entries in /etc/rc*.d)
You should see something like:
[root@redhat60 init.d]# ps axww|grep nfs
7434 ? S 0:00 rpc.mountd --no-nfs-version 3
7445 pts/0 SW 0:00 [nfsd]
7446 pts/0 SW 0:00 [nfsd]
7447 pts/0 SW 0:00 [nfsd]
7448 pts/0 SW 0:00 [nfsd]
7449 pts/0 SW 0:00 [nfsd]
7450 pts/0 SW 0:00 [nfsd]
7451 pts/0 SW 0:00 [nfsd]
7452 pts/0 SW 0:00 [nfsd]
7489 pts/0 S 0:00 grep nfs
What does "exportfs -v" show?
[root@redhat60 init.d]# exportfs -v
/usr/local <world>(ro,async,wdelay,root_squash)
/mnt/cdrom <world>(ro,async,wdelay,root_squash)
/mnt/cdrom ns2.genrad.com(ro,async,wdelay,root_squash)
/usr/local ultra9.genrad.com(ro,async,wdelay,root_squash)
Thankfully I no longer have any contact with SCO, so I can't comment on
that one. The general rule I used to follow, which was valid 99% of the
time, is that in any conflict between SCO and anything else, the problem was
with SCO. I used to build programs for about 8 different platforms and SCO
was by far the most troublesome.
My Solaris 2.6 box, that I'm sitting at, mounts NFS file systems on
both RedHat 6.1 and Redhat 6.2 boxen with no problems. It does complain,
but still works, if you don't start the lock daemon.
> Does anyone have any clue what's going on here? I have noticed that
> this problem has been raised before, but I haven't heard of anyone
> solving it.
I don't know where this rumor came from, but I've never seen a problem.
A friend of mine had his boss tell him some story like that, claiming
that NFS server didn't work on RedHat 6.x boxen (his boss was a Micro$oft
FUD brainwashed drone). It took us all of 5 minutes to prove him wrong.
> I *really* need this.
It should be easy! Really! :-)
pete peterson
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