NFS server File System

[John Jayaseelan]

Hi,

The Windows PC accessing a directory from the HP-UX NFS file system is intermittently crashing. The server was rebooted and the NFS software was restarted. The following are the NFS process on the server.

ps -ef|grep nfs
root 780 0 0 Nov 22 ? 0:00 nfskd
root 1885 1884 0 Nov 22 ? 0:02 /usr/sbin/nfsd 4
root 1901 1 0 Nov 22 ? 0:38 /usr/sbin/rpc.pcnfsd
root 1884 1 0 Nov 22 ? 0:02 /usr/sbin/nfsd 4
root 1889 1884 0 Nov 22 ? 0:02 /usr/sbin/nfsd 4
root 1891 1884 0 Nov 22 ? 0:02 /usr/sbin/nfsd 4

Thanks,
John Jayaseelan

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi John,

Nfs will not work, you need to setup a CIFS server and import the filesytems with a CIFS windows client.

CIFS HPUX server

http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8725AA

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[BONNAFOUS Jean Marc]

Hi,
Nfs is ok between Unix systems.
Nfs between UNIX server and Windows Client is often a problem because it need a NFS Client software on PC. And these software usually don't work very well (response time, crash, ...).
Prefer using SAMBA (or CIFS HP-UX) server on your Unix Server (free software). You need no other soft on Window PC clients: Shared disks are see like Windows disks.

Rgds
JMB

[John Jayaseelan]

Hi,

The software onet is being used and everything was fine last couple of years, now the problem might have started after the failure of a disk belonged to one of NFS LV on the UNIX system.

Now the hard disk is replaced and the LV is now available. The entry from the /etc/fstab for the LV for the other UNIX system was missing and an entry as follow was done

ccprod01:/ultima /hosts/ccprod01/ultima nfs rw,suid,soft 0 0

Thanks
John Jayaseelan