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I am having a difficult time finding a solution for sharing between
Unix and Linux. I don't know your experience but I found that Linux'
NFS is not stable (at least for RH and Mandrake):

I've been happily using RH6.2 NFS client to mount Solaris NFS
servers. Recently I installed a new Mandrake (LM8.0). The LM8.0's
NFS client is mysteriously broken. The whole system locks up on my
login. (because I share my login and other scripts across all boxes)
The same environment does not have any problem when using RH6.2. I
tried to isolate the problem but this kind of lock up took me lot of
time so I gave it up.  I say it is LM's NFS client problem because
the only different is the RH vs LM.

I then planned to use samba to mount Unix' share. But I soon get
annoyed having to key in password every time, so I gave it up. (Is
there any way that I can samba mount without the need to type in the
password? Saving the password to file is out of the discussion)

I then moved the share to my Linux (RH6.2) and sharing it to
Unix. Normal file accessing is ok, but Unix' Netscape can't read
mail files that shared from my Linux. It has no problem when the
mail files were shared from Unix. I gave up reading the mail from my
Unix' Netscape. But now I found that RH6.2's NFS servers is not
stable. I get "NFS server sunny not responding" error very
easily. What's worse, the above error will hung all my Unix box that
automount the Linux share.

I'm at the end of my wisdom now, and I need you to point me a right
way -- not based on what it ought to be but based on your positive
experience.

Linux's NFS has give me too much headache. Of all the Linux I've
tried so far, only Debian can mount the copy of PC NFS that I
have. Solaris NFS client or server has always been stable and
robust.

Please make your comments or suggestion. Anything would be
appreciated. thanks

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Quote:> Hi,
> I've been happily using RH6.2 NFS client to mount Solaris NFS
> servers. Recently I installed a new Mandrake (LM8.0). The LM8.0's
> NFS client is mysteriously broken. The whole system locks up on my
> login. (because I share my login and other scripts across all boxes)
> The same environment does not have any problem when using RH6.2. I
> tried to isolate the problem but this kind of lock up took me lot of
> time so I gave it up.  I say it is LM's NFS client problem because
> the only different is the RH vs LM.

I have newer exeprienced any lockups. So clearly your problem
relates to linux nfs <-> solaris nfs co-existence. I can't help
you with that really, but maybe this guides to the right track when
finding solution...

By the way, I'm running kernels 2.2.12, 2.2.14, 2.2.17, 2.4.3 and 2.4.6.
Maybe you have some problematic kernel-version and need upgrade? I
found 2.4.5 to be quite unstable, although I had no nfs-problems with
that either...

Quote:> stable. I get "NFS server sunny not responding" error very
> easily. What's worse, the above error will hung all my Unix box that
> automount the Linux share.

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// Teemu

Any comments? thanks

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