HP UX 11.00a

[it_3]

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?

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

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

[harry d brown jr]

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

[it_3]

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

[it_3]

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

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

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?

[Patrick Wallek]

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.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

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