NFS Access Issue via Maestro

[Tom Danzig]

Hey All,

I have a real strange issue which Hummingbird tech support has been unable to help with.

We are trying to map several 10.20 file systems on a server and are receiving authentication errors on onlt one of the two file systems.

- All 3 are exported with the same options.
- All are mounted the same way (defaults)
- All 3 file systems are the same type (vxfs version 3), owner, group, and permissions (drwxrwxrwx).

When going to map the drives on Win2k/NT via Maestro Version 8.0, one fails with "Authentication Error" and the other two map fine using the same username and password (which is valid).

Any clues?

Thanks,
Tom

[Tom Jackson]

Hi Tom:

The only thing I can think of is that you may be restricting access to specific systems or users. You may want to check /etc/exports.

Tom

[Tom Danzig]

Thanks for the reply. As stated above, all are exported with the same option (-anon=0)

[Tom Danzig]

Minor corrction - the error message is "Authorization Error"

[Jeffrey Killian]

I think I ran into this with Maestro 6.5 (no longer supported), UX-11.0, NT4-Sp6a.

What we did is create user accounts/groups in the Windows domain that were "mapped" to the userid/groupid on the Unix box. Assigned NT permissions to the folders before exporting them up with Maestro. Export the folder and assign the user/group security.

As root user, created a directory on the Unix box for the file system mount and soft mount the remote FS. CHOWN the mounted FS to the desired User/Group and CHMOD for permissions of user/group/other. This seems to work - as no suggestions from Exceed worked at all.

If the permissions were created prior to mounting, things probably won't work right. If they don't seem to work on the unix side, unmount the FS, delete the directory for the mount, mount the FS, then re-create the directory and the ownership - Don't try fussing with the security on the unix side - just unmount the FS, delete the mounting point and start over.

Jeff Killian

[Tom Danzig]

Thanks for the info Jeff, however, my issue is with Windows clients trying to map HP-UX exports file systems. Your solution appears to be for the other way around.

[Michael Elleby III_1]

Hello-

If you have configured all of your exported directories on the HPUX server in the same fashion, and these dirs have similar permissions, etc., when was the last time you executed a the command 'exportfs -a'?

Just curious-

Mike

[Tom Danzig]

Michael - Nothing's changed since last boot.

[Michael Elleby III_1]

Tom-

What I am basically saying is this.. I have had problems with dirs that were already included in the /etc/exports file, and then not be able to mount it on another system.

I was able to resolve some by issuing the 'exportfs -a' command again.

For example, after you re-issue this command, go over to another UNIX system and issue this command:

showmount -e SERVERNAME

with SERVERNAME being the name of the server where you exported your directories.

Then go back over to your Windows system and retry the mount.

Mike-