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Strange NFS automounter problem

Hi...

Currently, I have a NFS server running on Solaris 9, which share out user's home directory.
All my clients are using Sun Ultra 5/10 workstation. All these workstation is running on SunOS 5.5.1.
Below is the auto_master and auto_home for all my client's workstation.

# Master map for automounter
#
+auto_master
/net -hosts -nosuid
/auto_home auto_home
/xfn -xfn
/home1 /etc/auto_home

# Home directory map for automounter
#
+auto_home
* myserver:/home1/&

All my clients was able to automount all the directory in home1, but some client workstation encounter some strange problem when they mount to the directory in home1.

This is the problem I'm encounting now. Let say my /home1/user1 directory contains the following files/directory in it.

drwxr-xr-x 34 usr staff 1024 Oct 14 09:13 old
drwxr-xr-x 55 usr staff 2048 Oct 11 08:47 used
-rw-r--r-- 1 usr staff 1613 Nov 2 08:nov01_19_37
-rw-r--r-- 1 usr staff 13372 Nov 2 08:nov01_19_46
drwxr-xr-x 4 usr staff 512 Oct 3 2003 TRAIN
drwxr-xr-x 25 usr staff 512 Oct 29 2002 archieved
drwxr-xr-x 15 usr staff 512 Apr 18 2003 debug

On the problematic client workstation, when I 'cd' to /home1/user1 and do a 'ls', I only get the following output.

drwxr-xr-x 15 usr staff 512 Apr 18 2003 debug
drwxr-xr-x 34 usr staff 1024 Jan 12 2004 old
drwxr-xr-x 50 usr staff 1024 Nov 9 13:39 used

When I update certain files in /home1/user1 directory on the problematic client workstation, the update is not reflected on the server home directory.

This is a very strange problem as I'm able to automount to the shared folder, but I'm not able to view all the files/folder in it. Somemore, the updates done on the problem workstation onto the shared automount directory is not reflected on the server.

Someone pls help.
Thanks.

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ShadowWarrior111

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Currently, I have around 5 client workstation facing this problem. Below is the answer to some of the question.

1. There's nothing unusual found on the messages for both the server and client.

2. When I do manual NFS mount of the home directory, I'm able to see all the files, but the automounted home directory still display certain directory only.

3. I'm able to do `ls /net/server/home1/user1`

As I'm not able to reboot these problematic workstations for the time being, I'm not able to determine whether this problem can be solved once rebooted. I'm also not able to unmount the current home directory as it is being used.

Is there any solution out there to fix this strange problem?

Thanks...

rugdog

so, in point #3 you are able to do the ls /netc/server/home1/user1, do you see al its files?

I would try to restart the automountd and nfs.client.

check out for patches regarding automount and nfs for sunos 5.5.1 at sunsolve:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/startadvsearch.do?pageId=bycollection

the ones I found for automount:

104654-05
104055-03
103928-02

for nfs there's a bunch.

Also, try this:

cd to /home1/user1/
and do a
truss ls -la

see if by any chance the files that are hidden are attempted to be read.

ahoffmann

I'd reboot the server, on the client it's sufficient to stop and start all mount/nfs services (including portmapper)

Also: I'm still waiting for the results of rpcinfo ...

ShadowWarrior111

ASKER

Hi rugdog/ahoffmann,

Thank you both for your help. 1st of all, I'm not able to reboot the workstation as the workstation is being used to run some application. Somemore, when I try to stop/start the nfs daemon, it will say that home drive is busy..
Anyhow, the problem is solved once I reboot the workstation.

I'm really thankful for both your help. How do I split the points between you two?