Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 06:25:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: pavlidis@hyper.gr (Savas Pavlidis) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locking problem between SysV3.2 and FreeBSD NFS Message-ID: <199509241325.GAA05478@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199509241249.PAA26922@hypernet.hyper.gr> from "Savas Pavlidis" at Sep 24, 95 03:49:11 pm
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FreeBSD does not yet support locking on NFS as SUN make it very hard to find out how it's done.. however I beleive someone is working on it.. terry? as there are MANY MANY machines that don't support locking on NFS, There must be a way of disabling it, or they couldn't talk to a lot of machines.. (hopefully we'll have it soon anyway) > > I have a Motorola MPC200 computer in my job, running UNIX System V R32V3 > (System V3.2.3). I loaded FreeBSD on a 486 pc and tried to use the PC hard > disk via NFS. Connection established. All work OK, but when a program > running on Motorola tries to lock the file from the PC, the program hungs. > The Motorola prints on system console, udp_connect failed. Use and locking > with another Motorola (exactly the same systems) has no problems. > The user from the Motorola side is the root. No NIS or yellow pages are used. > Systems are identified by the /etc/hosts table, and .rhosts files. > The directory from the PC side which is exported is anon=root, with rw for all. > The NFS mount from the Motorola side is hard mount, rw. Permissions > on the PC directory is 0666 for files and the directory itself. > I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what is going wrong, and what > is annoying, is the fact that with the same set of parameters the > two Motorola systems work very well. As the NFS is a standard method > of sharing disk resources, I think that it mustn't be a compatibility problem. > HELP WANTED BADLY.... > Please reply to me by e-mail, 'cause some problem with a news server does not > pass all news of USENET to local server. Thus if you simply post article > your reply, > I may never read it. Thanks in advance... > pavlidis@hyper.gr [ We are born alone, we die alone. ] > [ But in the middle, we can mingle... Savas ] > >
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