Re: knfsd

Eugene Crosser (crosser@average.org)
31 Dec 1998 19:48:14 +0300


[Posted and mailed]

In article <368ABCC3.32527EB5@shiresoft.com>,
"Guy G. Sotomayor" <ggs@shiresoft.com> writes:

> Can someone tell me how to get knfsd to work on 2.1.131? I guess I'm
> missing something obvious -- I can't get it to work. I'm also using the
> knfsd-981204 utilities that go along with it.
>
> I want to try this out, because my sparc solaris systems keep getting
> "NFS server not responding keep trying" messages when ever I try to use
> a file system mounted from Linux. My other Linux boxes don't have any
> problems talking to the Linux NFS server.

This is a very old and very well known problem. Knfsd does not work
when it tries "NFS over TCP". Until this feature is fixed or disabled,
you need to specify "-proto=udp" in vfstab (or auto_home, whatever) on
your Solaris boxes.

Eugene

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