topic Re: HP UX 11.00a in Operating System - HP-UX

HP UX 11.00a

it_3 — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:22:00 GMT

Hi all,

I have an HPUX11.00a,an HP10.20 and a number of NT4 machines. I have set up Windows services for Unix and configured an NFS server on a number of NT4 machines to enable the 11.00a box to 'see' a particular folder [ to enable files to be accessed on the NT4 server from the HP11.00a box]. I have managed to mount a directory on the hp11.00a box and when I first change into this directory and run lp -la I get a listing ok. BUT from then on it shows either unreachable or not found. If I set up the 10.20 box the same to the same NT4 server all ok.

Any suggestions?

Re: HP UX 11.00a

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:27:56 GMT

It sounds like you have an NFS version problem. HP-UX 11.X uses NFSv3 as the default whereas HP-UX 10.20 uses NFSv2 as the default.

On your 11.0 machine try mounting the directory with the 'vers=2' option. Your mount command would look something like:

# mount -F nfs -o vers=2 nt_machine:/exported/directory /directory/on/hpux

Re: HP UX 11.00a

harry d brown jr — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:30:00 GMT

Bob,

Try using Samba on the 10.20 machines, and CIFS/9000 on the 11's:

CIFS/9000:
http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProducts.pl?group_type=search&group_name=CIFS&search_free=1&search_trial=1&search_buy=1

Samba
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Misc/samba-2.2.3a/

beats the crap out of NFS and easily works both ways, and no need for special software on the NT's!

live free or die
harry

Re: HP UX 11.00a

it_3 — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:36:40 GMT

Hi Patrick and Harry,

Thanks for such a fast response.

Patrick i hadn't realised the OS had differing versions so I will try this next.

Harry I have tried the CIFS client with HP11.00 but still had errors.

The SfU is version 1.0 so maybe this is the cause.

thanks again to you both

regards,

bob Briggs

Re: HP UX 11.00a

it_3 — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:50:27 GMT

Yippee,

That did it was the versions that caused the problem, Changed to vers=2 and Bob's your uncle, er and my name.

Thanks again

Re: HP UX 11.00a

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:56:26 GMT

Just a quick side question. (Or should I start a new thread to allow throwing points :) Can HP-UX 11.00 export a file system to NFS and share it both to NFS3 *and* NFS2 clients?

In other words, if HP-box A exports a file system with no specific version options can both NFS2 and NFS3 clients connect?

Re: HP UX 11.00a

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:03:57 GMT

Procura,

If all of the NFS clients and server are HP-UX 10.X and 11.X, then the thing to do is get the 10.X clients upgraded to NFS v3. This can be done via patches, though I don't recall which specific ones.

If you have a directory exported and the machine is running NFS v3, I don't know how well a NFS v2 client would deal with that.

Re: HP UX 11.00a

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:51:43 GMT

Well, actually, all HP-UX systems work fine. They're all at December-2001 (some itrc issues prevented me from ordering March-2002 on SUM, but that is solved now). The system that is having trouble (both ways) is an AIX 4.2

I've mentioned this in thread http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x02737783db2ad6118ffc0090279cd0f9,00.html where I got no satisfying answer.

If you have one, follow-up there and collect your points