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Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8 automount problem

Asked by: RickinVa

Recently upgraded a Solaris 2.6 Sparc 2000 (call it box A) to Solaris 8.  A separate 2.6 machine (call it box B) on the network was automounting filesystems that resided on box A.  Since the upgrade, Box B's automount is failing.  Was receiving automountd: server not responding messages until a reboot.  After the reboot, the messages have stopped but an attempt to access the automounted filesystems results in a permissions denied message.

Any clues?

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Answers

 

by: k.kidambiPosted on 2002-12-06 at 13:51:44ID: 7544823

Did you checked whether you have updated /etc/dfs/dfstab, to allow sharing your filesystems pm Box A. That could be a problem. Also check whether your nfsd is running on the server (box A) or not.

post your comments here.

Try your luck
kidambi

 

by: vedhakPosted on 2002-12-06 at 14:55:16ID: 7545140

I faced the same problem.
I restarted the NFS Server(just the service) and it fixed it. Try to restart the NFS services (/etc/init.d/nfs.server stop and start).

 

by: yuzhPosted on 2002-12-06 at 23:23:39ID: 7546603

1. At Box A (the one you upgraded to Solaris 8), have a look at /etc/nsswitch.conf file
 make sure that "hosts" entry you have "files" infront of nisplus, eg:

hosts:      files nisplus dns [NOTFOUND=return]

If you are using NIS, replace nisplus with "nis"

edit /etc/hosts file to put the infor about Box B in the file.

restart NFS deamon
/etc/rc3.d/S15nfs.server stop
/etc/rc3.d/S15nfs.server stop

unshareall;shareall

2. At Box B, login as root, type in:
automount

(or reboot box B)

If the about can't solve your problem, you can try to install the lastest Recommended patchs on box B (do Full system backup before patching the box)

See how it goes.

If you still have problem, please post the error message from /var/adm/messages.

Good luck !
==========
yuzh

 

by: ahoffmannPosted on 2002-12-07 at 07:02:41ID: 7547339

check if both boxes agree on the same NFS protocol:
   rpcinfo -p A
   rpcinfo -p B

 

by: maroukPosted on 2002-12-07 at 11:10:14ID: 7547920

hi,

it looks to me like host B has problems revolving
host A correctly. so check the entries in the /etc/hosts
and in the /etc/nsswitch.conf. truss the mount process to
see how host B tries to resolve host A. Make sure that
on host A everything is shared correctly !!!

regards

Marouk

 

by: chamkilaPosted on 2002-12-07 at 12:20:40ID: 7548237

This is just a throught, have you checked the group/user ID.
I had a same problem on a Unix box, it ended up being the user id were different. It just a throught.

 

by: RickinVaPosted on 2002-12-09 at 10:02:28ID: 7555232

Thanks to all... turned out to be a DNS problem... once we 're-tweaked' DNS, we were good to go.

Thanks again,

-Rick

 

by: liddlerPosted on 2004-02-10 at 10:15:48ID: 10324494


No comment has been added lately, so it's time to clean up this TA.
I will leave a recommendation in the Cleanup topic area that this question is:

PAQ and refund

Please leave any comments here within the next four days.

PLEASE DO NOT ACCEPT THIS COMMENT AS AN ANSWER!

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by: ahoffmannPosted on 2004-02-11 at 06:20:13ID: 10332292

as long as the questioner does not proof my assumtion, the 2 automounter speak diggerent NFS protocols.
PAQ, and *no* refund, please

 

by: yuzhPosted on 2004-02-11 at 06:41:11ID: 10332501

DNS problem, as good as my comment (ID: 7546603).




 

by: ahoffmannPosted on 2004-02-12 at 00:31:56ID: 10340432

agreed

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