NFS mount between HP and Sun

[Josee Bourget-Thuma]

Can it be done?

If so, are there issues?

Trying to share a cdrom for remote installation.

Any additional info is VERY welcome.
Thanks!

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

There should be no problem. We do it all the time.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Geoff Wild]

Yes - it can.

For example, to share your cdrom on HP with a Solaris box:

mount /dev/dsk/ /cdrom
exportfs -i -o ro /cdrom

Rgds..Geoff

[Steven E. Protter]

Yes.

NFS is pretty standard across platforms.

Linux has gotten a bit off the path with extra /etc/exports options, but heck, you can even NFS with Novell, ask Pete Randall.

SEP

[Karthik S S]

For that matter with Windows using "Services For UNIX" :-)

-Karthik S S

[Josee Bourget-Thuma]

OK guys.. that's what I thought.. however, I'm getting a permission denied as I try to NFS mount from my client .. any ideas?

Thanks again...

[Karthik S S]

From where are you exporting and on which box are you mounting?

If you are planning to export only the /cdrom then

solaris /etc/dfs/dfstab should look like this,

share -F nfs /cdrom
and run shareall

If you are exporting from HP-UX

then check if /etc/exports contains,
/cdrom
and run exportfs -a

Now you should be able to mount w/o probs.

-Karthik S S

[RAC_1]

Further to kartiks reply,

In any case if ur are mounting as root, root is always treated as unknown user.
(Very sure about HP-ux, but not with sun)

So you will have to put anon option in /etc/exports file and on sun machine.

[Kevin Wright]

export the FS with root=hostname

unshareall/shareall
or
exportfs -u /mnt
exportfs -a

[Josee Bourget-Thuma]

Still trying to get this mount shared.

It's a pfs mount.
It's been exported with pfs_export -av and the proper entry in pfs_exports.

The disk is mounted pfs mode and reads fine on the NFS server.

How can I check if I see this mount on the NFS client?

Is there a different way to mount a pfs share?

I'm still getting a permission denied while issuing the mount hostname:/mount1 /localdir

Thanks again!

[Karthik S S]

On the NFS Client,

nohup /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd &
nohup /usr/sbin/pfsd &
pfs_mount -o xlat=unix nfssrv:/cdrom /local_mnt_pnt

-Karthik S S

[James A. Donovan]

If you're exporting a pfs_mount from the HP server, please, please, please take a look at the bottom of this web page ( http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ ) on how to configure your HP box to never need PFS again!

Install guides are written to the lowest common denominator system. HP-UX has not required the pfs_mount command for some time now....

[Josee Bourget-Thuma]

I'm still getting "permission denied" ...
Must be missing something.

[Geoff Wild]

Try adding access:

exportfs -i -o ro access=sunserver /cdrom

and/or root:

exportfs -i -o ro root=sunserver /cdrom

Rgds...Geoff

[RAC_1]

Post nfs version on sun and on hp.


They should be matching.

[James A. Donovan]

It could be a name/ip address resolution issue. From the server, ensure that you can resolve the client's hostname and its IP address using nslookup. Do the same thing from the client, making sure you can resolve the server's hostname and IP address.