[NCLUG] NFS from HPUX to Linux

[JONES,LUKE (HP-Greeley,ex1)]

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
Hewlett Packard Automated Storage PEC
Tape Automation R&D Greeley Colorado USA
(970)350-5152
luke_jones at hp.com