From: J Sloan <joe@tmsusa.com>
To: Scott Robert Ladd <scott@coyotegulch.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.5.52] NFS works with 2.4.20, not with Win2K/SFU
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:42:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E110417.1050209@tmsusa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: FKEAJLBKJCGBDJJIPJLJMEMPDOAA.scott@coyotegulch.com
No telling what kind of odd bugs could be in
ms services for unix, I was not at all impressed
with what I saw of it at Linux world last Aug -
It seemed to be mostly a broken toy...
My experience suggests that you'll have much
better luck using samba for your unix-to-pc
connectivity needs.
Just a thought,
Joe
Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
>Heck if I know whose bug this is...
>
>One of my systems runs kernel 2.5.52; its NFS shares mount fine with my
>2.4.20 system, and the 2.4.20 shares mount properly on the 2.5.52 system.
>All's happy in Linuxland.
>
>Unfortunately, Windows is *not* happy. My system using Windows 2000
>w/"Services for Unix" can mount the NFS exports from the 2.4.20 machine --
>but while the Win2K box can *see* the 2.5.52 shares, it suffers terribly
>when trying to mount them -- sometimes locking up, sometimes telling me the
>share can't be found.
>
>Another oddity: The Win2k machine sees the 2.4.20 system by IP address, and
>the 2.5.52 system by name.
>
>I have the 2.5.52 kernel compiled for NFS4. Both the 2.5.52 system and
>2.4.20 have identical /etc/exports and /etc/hosts.
>
>I'm quite willing to lay this in the lap of those jolly folk in Redmond, but
>I was wondering if anyone knew of incompatibility between 2.5.52 NFS and
>Win2K/SFU.
>
>..Scott
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-31 2:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-28 22:19 [RFT][PATCH] generic device DMA implementation Adam J. Richter
2002-12-30 23:23 ` David Brownell
2002-12-30 23:42 ` [2.5.52] NFS works with 2.4.20, not with Win2K/SFU Scott Robert Ladd
2002-12-31 2:42 ` J Sloan [this message]
2002-12-31 4:32 ` Scott Robert Ladd
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