topic Re: Remote directory mounting in Operating System - HP-UX

Remote directory mounting

Piyush — Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:38:40 GMT

Hi guys,

Need your help! I am working on HP - visualize workstation running HP-UX 10.20 and trying to mount a directory(nfs_export) which is on Win NT workstation.
I am using SAM to mount this directory on my HP machine.I am passing local dirctory /pc_nfs, machine name = ip address of WIN NT machine(boston) and remote directory = /nfs_export. But HP system is not able to find that directory and msg is boston:/nfs_export directory not found.
But I can ping that system (boston).

Re: Remote directory mounting

Denver Osborn — Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:31:53 GMT

Are you using any type of NFS software on the NT box that has the directory exported, or is it just a WinNT Share?

Re: Remote directory mounting

Piyush — Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:34:06 GMT

I am using HCL NFS Maestro server for export

Re: Remote directory mounting

Tim Malnati — Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:08:44 GMT

First, is pcnfsd or hclnfsd running on the NT box? You should be able to find it with the NT Task Manager under the processes tab.

If this does not correct things I would suspect the NT box, particularly the exports file. Hummingbird has a pretty good knowledgebase with specific things to check beyond this; see: http://www.hcl.com/support/nc/nfs/index.html

Also, when using SAM to configure an NFS mount, be sure to select the SOFT option (it defaults to HARD). The problem here is that you can have a major impact on the HP box if the mount is lost for any reason. Even while logging in, quotas are checked on NFS mounts. Need I say more?

Re: Remote directory mounting

Antoanetta Naghiu — Sun, 30 Jul 2000 08:51:40 GMT

How did you mount the nfs file in Unix side?
Try to have in /etc/fstab domething like that:
boston:/nfs_export /ps_nfs nfs soft,rsize=2048,rw,suid 0 0
And try to mount it again.

Re: Remote directory mounting

Andreas Voss — Mon, 31 Jul 2000 06:57:57 GMT

Hi,

just a comment:
If you upgrade your workstation to HP-UX 11.00
you can mount NT boxes with CIFS without any need of additional software on NT.
Here the CIFS page:
http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8724AA

Regards

Andrew