topic Re: automounter problem in Operating System - HP-UX

automounter problem

sreejith_4 — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 04:31:32 GMT

when i access automounted directories it is throwing the below error
NFS server (pid634@/net) not responding still trying

I am unable to start the auotomounter manually also. Tried restarting the system and it has started working fine for about 10 minutes. Again it is gone down.

Thanks
Sreejith M

Re: automounter problem

Muthukumar_5 — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 04:44:19 GMT

Hai,

To create the automount, create the automount file with contents as

machine:/mount-dir

Create an entry in the /etc/auto_master as
/-

It will be automounted normally. Check mount -v or mount command after reboot. It will be automounted.

Regards,
Muthukumar.

Re: automounter problem

Bharat Katkar — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 04:54:10 GMT

Hi Sreejith,
Check /etc/exports file on NFS server. Check /etc/auto_master file on NFS client.
Check network connectivity to nfs server and whether there any name resolution issues.
See if all required daemons are running. nfs.core,nfs.client and nfs.server.

Finally try restarting the daemons as:
/sbin/init.d/nfs.core stop|start

Hope that helps.
Regards,

Re: automounter problem

sreejith_4 — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 05:17:24 GMT

Hi,

This was working till yesterday and there is no file modification done for etc/auto_home and etc/auto_master for a long time.
The same exported directory is mounted in many servers by using automounter and its all working fine.
I am able to ping the nfs server from client.

even it is getting mounted after restarting. But again the mounted directory will be inaccessible after some time. It becomes accessible automatically after some time again.

Sreejith M

Re: automounter problem

Bharat Katkar — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:06:52 GMT

Hi,
Check the DNS entry for your Client in DNS server.
Try doing
> nslookup NFSCLIENT

from NFS server.

Regards,