Remote directory mounting

[Piyush]

Hi guys,

Need your help! I am working on HP - visualize workstation running HP-UX 10.20 and trying to mount a directory(nfs_export) which is on Win NT workstation.
I am using SAM to mount this directory on my HP machine.I am passing local dirctory /pc_nfs, machine name = ip address of WIN NT machine(boston) and remote directory = /nfs_export. But HP system is not able to find that directory and msg is boston:/nfs_export directory not found.
But I can ping that system (boston).

[Denver Osborn]

Are you using any type of NFS software on the NT box that has the directory exported, or is it just a WinNT Share?

[Piyush]

I am using HCL NFS Maestro server for export

[Tim Malnati]

First, is pcnfsd or hclnfsd running on the NT box? You should be able to find it with the NT Task Manager under the processes tab.

If this does not correct things I would suspect the NT box, particularly the exports file. Hummingbird has a pretty good knowledgebase with specific things to check beyond this; see: http://www.hcl.com/support/nc/nfs/index.html

Also, when using SAM to configure an NFS mount, be sure to select the SOFT option (it defaults to HARD). The problem here is that you can have a major impact on the HP box if the mount is lost for any reason. Even while logging in, quotas are checked on NFS mounts. Need I say more?

[Antoanetta Naghiu]

How did you mount the nfs file in Unix side?
Try to have in /etc/fstab domething like that:
boston:/nfs_export /ps_nfs nfs soft,rsize=2048,rw,suid 0 0
And try to mount it again.

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

just a comment:
If you upgrade your workstation to HP-UX 11.00
you can mount NT boxes with CIFS without any need of additional software on NT.
Here the CIFS page:
http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8724AA

Regards

Andrew