Hummingbird NFS Meastro Solo 12.0 and OpenVMS Alpha V6.2

[geir_2]

Hi,

I have installed Hummingbird NFS Meastro Solo 12.0 on a XP client. The OpenVMS is already configured as a NFS-server. Everything seems to work 100%.

It's poosible to create a mount point from the XP-client to VMS NFS server. The mount point is also visible to the client. It's also possible to open the file if I use explorer, but if I try to open or write file through an XP-program to the NFS server, I got an error message (rwad and write).

I assume it should be possible to do someting on the client or server to avoid the error message. Maybe the file format on server and client is different? It's desirable to let the client interpret the file contents correctly.

[Hoff]

So to confirm, this is a completely fresh installation and has not been used before with other clients, and NFS on OpenVMS and the Hummingbird NFS client on Windows XP are meeting here for the first time?

If so, I'd first ensure you are using PCNFS and not NFS, and I'd then look at the UID and GID mappings; at the ownership mappings for the systems.

The exact error message text -- both OpenVMS and Windows have a maze of similar error messages (insert Dungeon joke here), so the exact text really helps -- would next be needed here, as would the Windows commands or operations that were attempted when the error(s) were triggered. Details that allow replication. Also check to see if there is anything relevant in the NFS server log, too.

An alternative client NFS client in the Windows SFU (Services to Unix) package, though I'd initially guess it's not the particular client but the configuration.

The alternative approach is Samba, which allows the Windows clients to use OpenVMS storage using SMB protocols. HP OpenVMS is moving toward CIFS/SMB based on Samba as its Windows storage server support.

[geir_2]

Hi again,

Thanks
More info:
When I try to create a file from a program on a XP (NFS-client) to a VMS NFS-server, the file name start with a $-character, and the file contens include a visable on each line. I could of course make a script file, which change the filename, and rmeove the on each line.

But I assume it should be possible to do something on the NFS client (which create these files).

Regards Gdir

[Brian Reiter]

Does the export work OK from an VMS NFS client?

I recall a similar problem with the VMS clients which were solved by using a Typeless export (via the options) and doing the mount with a structure level of 5.

From the clients all files in the export directory were prefixed with a $.

Just a thought

cheers


Brian

[Hoff]

>>> the file contens include a visable on each line. I could of course make a script file, which change the filename, and rmeove the on each line. <<<

PC NFS deals with authentication for NFS.

Also look at the NFS ADF conversion mechanism, as this CR stuff is very likely a sequential file format conversion issue. Sequential files are not necessarily byte-level compatible, and the ADF stuff deals with that for you.

[geir_2]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the answer :-)
The NFS client is based on XP, and the server is OpenVMS. It's no problem to use wordpad(XP) when I create,read and write files to the NFS-server. It's also possible to drag and drop files from explorer.

The problem is the program on the NFS client(XP).

Maybe I should try to export the filesystem on VMS (typeless). I'm not sure how I could mount structure level 5 through NFS Hummingbird.

Geir