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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: NFS mount problem between Next <-> APOLLO
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.233811.6683@alphalpha.com>
Date: 11 Apr 91 23:38:11 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.015148.17946@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1991Apr9.072112.15858@alphalpha.com> <1991Apr10.135826.26648@media.uucp>
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In article <1991Apr10.135826.26648@media.uucp> rmf@media.uucp (Roger Fujii) writes:
>>Interesting.  I have a similar problem from a Sun to the Apollo.  I can access it, but
>>df only works if I'm root.  I mounted //.  Anyone have any ideas?
>
>Check to see what that port numbers are when you do an /etc/rpcinfo.
>My recollection was that when one of the hosts allocated a port < 1024,
>for a nfs daemon, the apollo would fail because its nfs daemon was
>schitzoid (ran as the current user using it) and lost permission to
>the connecting port (<1024 are priveliged ports).

I don't think that's it.  It's port 2049.

>>I've also seen other things.  The Sun hangs (^C breaks out of it) trying to
>>run binaries stashed on the Apollo - or reading and writing large files. 
>>The error on the Apollo was something to the affect that a value was
>>non-numeric.
>
>I seen this too.  The apollo must be screwing up the SunOS's shared text 
>mechanism over nfs.  I wish apollo would implement the newer NFS protocol -
>it would get rid of some of these headaches.

Any comments from anyone at Apollo?  This is a royal pain.  I've got
more disk space on my Apollo's than on my Sun, but I don't dare use
it from the Sun because it's so unreliable.  Accessing the Sun from
the Apollo works fine though.

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