hello all...

a collegue recently upgraded his sun to Solaris9 from version 9. i previously had one of its disks mounted on my redhat 7.3 box, but now i am finding that i can no longer do so. when i attempt a mount, the process just hangs and prints no message. i have recycled all the nfs services on my linux box and even rebooted, but to no avail. i have tried a mount using nfs version 3 as well. no dice.

is there some fundamental error i have overlooked? is there some change in Solaris9 from Solaris8 which limits my linux box from mounting the solaris disk easily????

THANKS for any help!

Have you looked in /var/adm/message on the Solaris machine? Or in /var/log/messages on your redhat system? I would make sure the upgrade didn't over write any of the files in /etc/dfs on the Solaris9 system. Also, make sure that /etc/init.d/nfs.server on the solaris machine has been started up.

--Matt

hello all...

an update::
i use the following mount command

# mount -t nfs -o nfsversion=3 solaris.machine.address:/remotedisk /localmountpoint

it seems like there is no problem after all. it was just a matter of time. most mount commands i execute are almost instantaneous. however, this new Solaris box had a rather intense firewall (Sunscreen?) of sorts which seemingly slowed the handshaking process between my RH7.3 box and the Solaris 9 box. after about 4 minutes, the mount command finished and the remote Solaris disk was mounted successfully.

i'm not certain why this particular mount takes so long except to say that it probably has something to do with Sunscreen, but that's as far as i can take it. data transfer speeds between the S9 and RH7.3 disks are identical to speeds before the S upgrade, so i'm happy.

one problem is that mounting this disk during boot or using a nfs service script will probably fail on my RH box by time-out, so i will have to increase the time-out threshold if that's possible. but for now, things are gravy.

thanks, mmars for the input!