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From: fbraab@leuze.UUCP (Fritz B. Raab)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC-NFS & WP 5.1 save on SunOS 4.1
Message-ID: <1573@leuze.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 90 11:30:59 GMT
References: <1990Nov28.220721.6777@pandora.matrox.com>
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Organization: Leuze electronic D-7311 OWEN-Teck., W-Germany
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rpage@matrox.com (Real Page) writes:

>I use PC-NFS 3.01 with WP 5.1 since about 1 year without major problem
>with a Sun 3/60 server running 4.0.

>I used to mount the drive with the "/sh" option to enable locking.

>Last week-end, we upgraded to SunOS 4.1, and since then I have lots of
>problem with file access.

We had more often than once problems with the rpc.lockd.

I suggest to use the old version of rpc.lockd, where you had no problems.

We have similar effects with PC-CAD software on SunOS 4.0.3.
When I tried to upgrade 4.0.3 with a rpc.lockd patch I got read-only and
sharing problems too.

The use of /sh option means that you use the lockd for dealing with multiple
access to a file. If you don't use /sh you will get problems if more than one
process wants to access your file at once.
But don't use /ms. When your server dies and comes up again, nobody will be
ables to save any file anymore, most PC - programs hang under that condition,
they will have to reboot, although a unmount and remount would be sufficiant.

Regards, Fritz
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