[NCLUG] NFS from HPUX to Linux

Charles Clarke clarke at clarkecomputer.com
Mon May 20 17:04:56 MDT 2002


What do have in the exports and fstab files on the respective machines?

What type of firewalls do you have on the machines?

We have had HP-UX 10.20 exporting to linux working fine for quite a while
now.

charles


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On Mon, 20 May 2002, JONES,LUKE (HP-Greeley,ex1) wrote:

> I've got a couple of Linux boxes from which I would like to mount a
> filesystem exported off an HP-UX server. It's not working.
> 
> Since I have two Linux boxes, and since I don't know the first thing about
> HPUX, I thought I would start by checking my understanding of NFS. I was
> able to get things working there but only by disabling the firewalls on both
> boxes.
> 
> (Side note: the NFS howto anticipates this, noting that you can specify
> particular ports for /(lock|quota|stat|mount)d/ but if anyone has done this
> with the delightful Red Hat value-add networking scripts (e.g. a secret
> environment variable to set in /etc/sysconfig/network, or something like
> that) I'd appreciate it if you could pass that information my way.)
> 
> So, anyway, I can do both an export and a mount with Linux boxes and it's
> quasi-straightforward to get that working. But the HP-UX box RPC times out
> on me. Teh PHXU box shows a bunch of plausible services when i do rpcinfo -p
> (nfs, mountd, etc.) either on it or remotely, so I'm puzzeld what to make of
> tihs.
> 
> Any idesa, PHXU mavens?
> 
> 
> Luke Jones
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