SUMMARY: Problems mounting NFS partitions on dataless sparc 2

From: Richard Bogusz (rich_b@oldham.gpsemi.com)
Date: Tue Jun 02 1992 - 11:25:17 CDT


Dear all

Yesterday I posted the following request :

Hello folks,

I am having a tremendous time trying to do a very routine job on a couple of
new sparc 2's. I am trying to mount two partitions on the clients from an
NFS server (4/490 SunOS 4.1.2) I am using the correct partition names, the clients are in the exports file but I still get :

mount access denied for sn4902
mount giving up on /home/artist3

(where sn4902 is the server and artist3 is one of the partitions in question)

I have tried using netgroups to get this to work but it has made no difference
I have even tried chopping the netgroups into smaller chunks in case there is
a problem with netgroup sizes, but still no joy. I have even remade the exports
file by re-typing all entries.

Any ideas?

PS. The clients are dataless running 4.1.2, I have many other clients identically configured but they all work fine and I can't replicate the fault.

Thanks in anticipation of lots of good advice!

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Thanks for all the responses to the above especially to Craig Carpenter who
replied with the correct solution to my problem....short and to the point!

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>From ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com Mon Jun 1 18:13:47 1992
To: rich_b@oldham.gpsemi.com (Richard Bogusz)
Cc: ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com
Subject: Re: Problems mounting NFS partitions on dataless sparc 2
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 92 13:12:19 -0400
From: "Craig Carpenter (E-Mail ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com)" <ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com>
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Have you tried rpc.mountd .................

Craig Carpenter
Harris Corp

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It seems that the rpc.mountd running on the nfs server had hung, by killing it
off and starting it again I managed to clear the problem and the client could
mount all the partitions it needed.

Thanks to all the following who offered advice:

"Craig Carpenter (E-Mail ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com)"
Dave Plummer <dlp@mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk>
ajs6143@eerpf001.boeing.com ( Andy J. Stefancik 206-234-3049 )
Patrick Gosling <jpmg@engineering.cambridge.ac.uk>
feldt@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu (Andy Feldt)
Patrick Shopbell <pls@pegasus.rice.edu>
Ace Stewart <jstewart@mailbox.syr.edu>
"Kevin W. Hammond" <hammond@caseng.com>
kalli!kevin@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
fallan@baobab.awadi.com.AU (Frank Allan - Network Manager)
"Andrew Luebker" <aahvdl@eye.psych.umn.edu>

Cheers

Richard Bogusz
Gec Plessey Semiconductors LTD
Oldham
United Kingdom
OL9 7LA



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