Very Computer

I am trying to NFS mount a remote HP/Apollo file system on a SCO
Opendesktop platform with limited success.  A couple of things are
*ed up:

    SCO NFS has trouble with Apollo soft links pointing to a file
    pathname of the form //node/path/filename.  For some reason SCO
    truncates the last two characters of the filename.  Directory
    links, on the other hand, are handled properly.  NOTE:  I have
    other NFS clients (SGI, Tandem) which do not exhibit this problem.

    I can maybe work around the above problem by changing my
    soft links.  A more basic problem, however, is that remote
    file access is flaky.  I can read small (< 4KB) files, but
    larger files cause it to hang.  Perhaps I need to diddle
    with NFS mount parameters.  It is currently running with
    defaults.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Has anyone gotten
a SCO NFS client to talk to an Apollo NFS server?  Is SCO NFS
industrial strength?

Many thanks

The two environments are as follows.

SCO:

SCO ODT 3.0.0
Release = 3.2v4.2
Machine = i80386
BusType = ISA

Apollo:

Domain OS, 10.3.5, NFS V2.3

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Mark S. Evans                 Tandem Telecommunications Systems Inc.
Phone: 214-516-6201           1255 W 15th St.
Fax:   214-516-6805           Plano, TX 75075

     cd //blast/user/mse/tmp
     ln -s //blast/user/mse/blah blah

On SCO,

     cd /hp/blast/user/mse/tmp   # where /hp/blast is the mount point for //blast
     ls -l blah

[...] 21 Jan 07 13:51 blah -> /hp/blast/user/mse/bl

Note that the Apollo is configured to translate //blast to /hp/blast
which the SCO NFS client picks up on.  

Quote:

>    I can maybe work around the above problem by changing my
>    soft links.  A more basic problem, however, is that remote
>    file access is flaky.  I can read small (< 4KB) files, but
>    larger files cause it to hang.  Perhaps I need to diddle
>    with NFS mount parameters.  It is currently running with
>    defaults.

    rsize=4096,wsize=4096,soft,intr

The first problem is still open.  Suggestions will be appreciated.
--
Mark S. Evans                 Tandem Telecommunications Systems Inc.
Phone: 214-516-6201           1255 W 15th St.
Fax:   214-516-6805           Plano, TX 75075