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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: NFS(between Sun SPARC Station and RS/6000)
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.153207.12874@world.std.com>
Date: 28 Sep 90 15:32:07 GMT
References: <606@sran251.sra.co.JP>
Organization: Saber Software
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y-yokoym@sran129.sra.co.jp (Yoshiyuki yokoyama) writes:
>We can't set up NFS between Sun SPARC Station and RS/6000.
>Please teach us if you know how to do it.

We didn't have any problems except that exporting to the Sun required
using the fully-qualified hostname or else the IBM would deny access
(ie if your host is `foo' and your domain is `bar.edu' you MUST give
the hostname `foo.bar.edu' exports permission -- `foo' alone will not
work).  A number of other networking tools such as rlogin show the
same behavior.

Note that if root has its shell as /bin/ksh and a user whose home
directory is NFS mounted from the Sun tries to `su', ksh will hang and
create a hell of a lot of NFS traffic until the ksh is killed.
Changing root's shell to /bin/csh corrected the problem for us.

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com