Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!eurtrx!euraiv1!henk From: henk@cs.eur.nl (Henk Langeveld) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: PCNFS 3.0.1.a hangs Message-ID: <1989Dec13.132354.791@cs.eur.nl> Date: 13 Dec 89 13:23:54 GMT References: <159@metaware.metaware.com> Organization: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, dept. CS (Informatica) Lines: 23 adam@metaware.metaware.com (At these prices, I can't NAME names) writes: > My problem is this. I have installed everything. 3com works >great. Telnet/PC-NFS works great as well. However, if I do not log into >one of our unix machines (and stay logged in) within 10 minutes of booting >my machine, PCNFS will hang if I later try to invoke it. This leads to lots >of reboots and irritation for all. We've encountered similar problems with MKS toolkit on PC-NFS machines. The problem manifests itself only when we use MKS' setup with SHELL=c:\etc\init.exe in config.sys. I ran etherfind on the server to find out what was happening on the net, and the pc does a call to nfs RFS_LOOKUP, after which the server issues an ip arp request for the pc. The arp request is strange, as the only authority on our net concerning host names is the server itself. -- Henk Langeveld, Unix SysAdmin | domain: Department of Computer Science | phone: +31 10 4081346 Erasmus University Rotterdam | also: langeveld@hroeur5.bitnet Room H5-05, P.O.Box 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.