NAS 1200 nfs - mkdir -p doesnot work with relative path names

[Dr Mike Lazell]

Hi

Anyone got any ideas about this one. Got a NAS 1200 running Storage server 2003 and services for UNIX (NFS). The NFS shares are mounted on a HPUX 11.00 HP9000 server. I have managed to get all the mounts working and read/writable by changing the NTFS permissions to full control but now i have a new problem. I can created directories on the nfs mount using full path names but cannot do it with relative pathnames like mkdir -p ../../newdir.

get the following error message

mkdir: cannot create ..: File name too long

Anyone seen this before and know how to fix it.

Cheers

Mike

[Bob_Vance]

One possible try would be:

cd yadayada

mkdir `pwd`/../xx

Of course, if the problem is with the "..", then this probably won't work.

BTW, I'm running SFU 3.5 on Win2k, exporting to HPUX, and it works fine for me :{

hth
bv

[Greg Carlson]

Mike,

They have made some NFS updates in the SR 5.4 kit for the NAS 1200s running WSS 2k3.

It can be ordered here:
http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductsList.do?category=NAS

Here are the release notes for SR 5.4 as well:
http://h200002.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00305784/c00305784.pdf

The SR5.4 cd is not available for download and must be ordered currently. It is free to order.

Ciao,
Greg

[Dr Mike Lazell]

Hi Greg

thanks for that i have now ordered the SR5.4 CD and await its arrival :)

Thanks again

Best Regards

Mike