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From: sgf@cs.brown.edu (Sam Fulcomer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SGI/Sun mountd errors (was Re: Power Series Iris as NFS file server?)
Summary: minor problem
Keywords: NFS
Message-ID: <41945@brunix.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 90 19:01:43 GMT
References: <1990Jun3.211031.1078@s1.msi.umn.edu> <8441@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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In article <8441@odin.corp.sgi.com> jweldon@renegade.sgi.com (Jack P. Weldon) writes:
>There is a problem with Sun's backoff algorithm in 4.1 mountd, and Sun has 
>
>*********************************************************************
>The result is that SunOS4.1 clients cannot NFS mount SGI filesystems.
>*********************************************************************
>
>We plan to fix this from our side in our next software release. This appears

Hmmm..., Well, while we're waiting for the SGI "break" there're two easy solutions:

 - Run some other rpc.mountd on the SGI (if you've got src around somewhere...)

 - run this on the SGI right after rpc.mountd:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <rpc/rpc.h>
                     
main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
        /* unregister with the portmapper */
        pmap_unset(100005,99);
}
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(compiled by "cc -I/usr/include/sun -I/usr/include/bsd -o unset unset.c -lsun -lbsd -lrpcsvc")

Now that wasn't so hard, was it?

sgf@cfm.brown.edu
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