Re: IRIX NFS server and Linux NFS client

From: Steffen Persvold (sp@scali.com)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 05:22:39 EST

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Steffen Persvold wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there any reason why my Linux NFS client (kernel 2.4.18
> nfs-utils-0.3.1-13.7.2.1 from RedHat 7.2) is not able to mount a directory
> exported from an IRIX server in NFSv3 (not sure which version of IRIX
> yet, if this is important I will find out). NFSv2 works fine, but if I
> try to force NFSv3 I get "Connection refused".
>
> I'll appreciate any help.
>

I forgot to mention that NFSv3 works when an IRIX client mounts the same
directory (i.e the directory shows up as "nfs" and not "nfs2" in the mount
table on the IRIX client).

Could it be that IRIX only supports NFSv3 with TCP and not UDP (I didn't
try TCP mounting on the Linux client) ?

Thanks, 

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