From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 13 18:52:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D625916A41F for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:52:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Received: from olmec.nighttide.net (jasper.nighttide.net [207.5.141.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE8043D98 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:52:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Received: from olmec.nighttide.net (darren@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olmec.nighttide.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jBDIqUVx059380 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:52:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Received: from localhost (darren@localhost) by olmec.nighttide.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) with ESMTP id jBDIqT3h059377 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:52:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) X-Authentication-Warning: olmec.nighttide.net: darren owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:52:29 -0500 (EST) From: Darren Henderson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051213130544.H59008@olmec> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: HP-UX NFS client X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:52:41 -0000 synopsis: freebsd NFS server, HP-UX NFS client. Client succeeds if it uses automount to mount the volumes but fails if a manual mount is used despite options. question: anyone have experience in a similar enviroment that can point me toward a solution? We use HP's Data Protector as an enterprise backup solution (formerly known as omniback). It only supports NFS backups of FreeBSD systems. I'm having an issue manually mounting volumes from a FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE (using source from 12/7) system on an HP-UX 11i (11.11) system. If I automount the volumes everything works fine and the HP system is able to hook up as expected and it can access the desired files. However, if I try to manually mount the volumes I get: nfs mount: getaddr_nfs: monhegan: NFS service not responding(retry delay=5s) nfs mount: retry: retrying(1) for: /monhegan after 5 seconds nfs mount: retry: giving up on: /monhegan I've tried forcing the version to 2 (as well as 1) - still returns the same thing, no apparent change in behavior. I've made sure the HP box's nsswitch.conf is pointing to files for everything - still returns the same thing. Numerous other combinations of options have been tried with no luck - I can not duplicate automounts success. So... automount (not autofs) on the HP box works differently then a manual mount in some undefined way or at least uses a set of options for the mount that I've not attempted. "nfsstat -m" on an HP-UX system, with a manually mounted NFS filesystem will display the options and flags used to do the mount. It displays nothing for automounted filesystems. I'm not aware of anything on the FreeBSD system that would tell me what options an NFS client used to connect. Watching with tcpdump on the freebsd system I see that both the manual and automount attempts make connections to the box, but they do look different: manual mount: PORTMAP V2 GETPORT in PORTMAP V2 GETPORT Reply out MOUNT V3 NULL Call in MOUNT V3 NULL Reply out MOUNT V3 MNT Call in MOUNT V3 MNT Reply : : auto mount: NFS V2 NULL Call in NFS V2 NULL Reply out PORTMAP V2 GETPORT Call in PORTMAP V2 GETPORT Reply out TCP port 712 in TCP port 712 out MOUNT V1 EXPORT Call in MOUNT V1 EXPORT Reply out : : Unfortunately, we've had little luck using automounted volumes with Data Protector so we wish to manually mount the volumes in the pre-backup script an then umount them in the post-backup script. Has anyone manually mounted a FreeBSD volume from an HP-UX client? Were there any special requirements? -Darren ______________________________________________________________________ Darren Henderson darren@nighttide.net Help fight junk e-mail, visit http://www.cauce.org/