NFS Error

[Peter Clarke]

Can anyone help??

Just set up NFS client on VMS 7.3-2 and mounted file system on my linux box but does not allow me to copy a file to this device.
Am i using the correct command (see attached...)

Regards

Peter

[Daniel Fernandez Illan]

Hi Peter.

You have a problem with permission between Linux and VMS (proxies accounts).

Yo may prove this command:

TCPIP> add proxy tcpip$nobody /uid=-2/gid=-2/host=*
TCPIP> sysconfig -r nfs noproxy_enabled=1
TCPIP> sysconfig -r nfs noproxy_uid=-2
TCPIP> sysconfig -r nfs noproxy_gid=-2

After shutdown and reboot TCP/IP services.

Best Regards.
Daniel.

[Kris Clippeleyr]

Peter,

As the RMS-E-PRV indicates, the account you're are using has no write access to the MFD of that disk.

Did you check the protection on that disk?

Kris

[Peter Clarke]

Daniel,

Do i have to shut down tcpip services or can i just stop nfs and restart??

Regards

Peter

[faris_3]

restarting nfs should be enough

You can also do on a console on the nfs server

$ reply/enable=network
to see the nfs messages.

hth,
HF

[Bojan Nemec]

Hi,

Check the /etc/exports file on the Linux machine and, as I suggested in yours previous thred, the /var/log/messages (just do a tail /var/log/messages after you try the copy command on VMS). Can you read anything from this disk or just a dir command?

Bojan

[Peter Clarke]

I checked the var/log/messages and there is nothing obvious here it just says that it mounted ok.
Tried reply/enable=network and i dont recieve any messages when the copy fails.

Let me just check this.

On the Linux box i have edited the /etc/exports file and entered /data/vmsalpha(sync) 129.100.2.1/16
I have added the user nfs_user 400:400 this is the same as user on the alpha.
Then i have started the nfsd daemon.

On the alpha i have created user account nfs_user [400,400] given privileges sysnam and grpnam,then i have added the proxy:
TCPIP>ADD PROXY NFS_USER /NFS=(OUTGOING,INCOMING)/UID=400/GID=400/HOST=ERITHMAIL
and mounted the remote directory:

TCPIP>MOUNT DNFS1: /HOST="ERITHMAIL" /PATH="/data/vmsalpha/"

then i want to copy file pctest.txt to remote directory:

COPY PCTEST.TXT DNFS1:[000000]

I this correct have i missed anything??

Regards

Peter

[faris_3]

have you tried connecting using nfs v3 ?

Some Linux use nfs V4 not yet supported by
the VMS nfs server.

[faris_3]

sorry i thought the server was VMS.

Anyhow, can your exports be accessed by a nfs V3 client ?

/hf

[faris_3]

I guess what you have checked on Linux
that the user nfs_user has write access
to the exported directory.