Ogden, Aaron A. wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm writing to report a problem with autofs in linux. We have some machines
> running Red Hat 7.1 and we have configured them to join one of our NIS
> domains run by Solaris 2.6 servers. Other Solaris 2.6 servers provide home
> directories and other filesystems via NFSv2 and v3. The problem is that
> autofs (with default options) hangs when trying to auto-mount home
> directories off of the Solaris NFS servers, but it works fine when
> auto-mounting filesystems from linux NFS servers.
>
> If I force autofs to use tcp mode (ie. localoptions='tcp' in
> /etc/init.d/autofs) I can automount filesystems off of the Solaris servers
> with no problem, but I can't automount filesystems from the linux NFS
> servers anymore. This makes sense because Linux nfsd does not support TCP
> mode in NFSv3 yet. (any idea when that will happen?)
>
All of this is a problem with a) NFS and b) the NFS mount(8) code. Sorry,
can't help you. Please contact the NFS maintainers.
-hpa
