Re: Slightly off topic NFS question

[Paul Furness <paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com>]

I'm afraid I can't give you a complete answer, just some pointers.
Unfortunately, I haven't used NFS server from a windows machine, so
these might be completely the wrong track. Anyway...

I have had problems getting samba to mount windows shares in the past,
and it seems likely that windows NFS uses some of the same auth
mechanism. The main problem I had was that, if you tried to mount the
windows share as a user that didn't exist _on the windows box itself_ it
wouldn't let you mount, even if perms were open to everyone.

As for the stale NFS handle, I have had similar problems with NFS in the
recent past. I spent ages trying to figure it out, and in the end it was
simply that I had to be someone other than root.

The other thing that helped was to make the exported file system use
no_root_squash.

Finally, you could always try the "Microsoft Solution" and reboot both
the Windows machine and the Solaris box. I've had that work before for
this kind of thing, too.

Sorry I can't be more directly helpful.

Paul.


On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 17:18, Michael French wrote:
>     Don't ask why, but I have to get a Windows box and a Solaris box talking
> over NFS.  The win box is the server and solaris box is the client.  I
> installed the Services for Unix on the Win box and configured NFS (what
> little there is to do).  I created a share and thought I was ready to rock.
> I do a showmount -e on the Win box and the share shows up.  rpcinfo
> servername shows all the processes I expect.
>     From the Solaris client, I can do the same thing with rpcinfo and
> showmount -e servername and get results back.  I had the firewall admin open
> up all IP traffic between these to boxes (just for now, for testing, having
> problems before this with just 2049 and 111 open).  I can mount the share
> with no problem (mount -o rw -F nfs 192.168.0.10:/testmount /testmount).  It
> mounts right away and running mount shows it with read/write/setuid on
> server, but as soon as I try to write to the share, I get a "Stale NFS"
> error.  I check the permissions on the mounted folder, changed to 777 before
> I mounted, owned by nobody/nobody (I am root right now).  On the win server,
> the log is showing a successfull mount, no errors.  The permissions on the
> directory on the server are wide open for all users, including connecting
> NFS clients.  Any idea what the hell could be going on?
> 
> I am using Solaris 8 and Win2K with SFU 2.2.  Win2K patched to SP3.
> 
> Thanks for any answers peope might be able to provide, I have to get this
> working today.
> 
> 
> Michael French
> 
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Paul Furness

Systems Manager
Visual Information Lab
Mitsubsihi Electric ITE BV
Guildford, UK
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