Problems with NFS automount of Linux filesystem under Solaris 8.

From: Brian Chase (vaxzilla@jarai.org)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 15:23:08 EDT


I've an odd problem on a Solaris 8 client of mine. Its unable to
automount an NFS filesystem served off of a Linux system. The same
system doesn't have problems automounting any of the other filesystems
being served off of our SGI and NetApp file servers. More puzzling
still, I'm able to manually NFS mount the filesystem with the `mount'
command.

The automount master file entry looks like this:

  /net /etc/auto.map -intr

The relevant /etc/auto.map file entry looks like this:

  vol606 -retry=5000 linuxnfs:/mnt/vol606

This should automount the Linux server's filesystem under /net/vol606 on
the Solaris client system. When I try to `cd /net/vol606', the command
hangs for a very long time. The one error message I get is the
following:

  Apr 8 12:00:58 client1 nfs: [ID 333984 kern.notice] NFS server linuxnfs
    not responding still trying

However, if I run a `mount linuxfs:/mnt/vol606 /mnt2' on the same
Solaris client, that command succeeds and I can access the contents of
the filesystem just fine.

Any ideas?

-brian.
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