Re: nfs server /home not responding

2010-08-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Lucas Wang lw...@us.toyota-itc.com: We use NFS to store /home directory for users in our lab. However, we occasionally get blocked from logging in because the automount daemon on a NFS client machine hangs. When that happens, we get this error message on the NFS client

Re: NFS server not responding/is alive again

2007-05-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- Janos Dohanics wrote: I have a FreeBSD 4.11 machine which mounts a volume from a Netapp ONTap. The FreeBSD machine also acts as a Samba PDC. The Samba volumes are in the NFS-mounted volume. There are about a dozen Win2K workstations on the network served by the Samba server. Lately I have

Re: NFS server not responding/is alive again

2007-05-03 Thread web
At 10:55 AM 5/3/2007, you wrote: Hi-- Janos Dohanics wrote: I have a FreeBSD 4.11 machine which mounts a volume from a Netapp ONTap. The FreeBSD machine also acts as a Samba PDC. The Samba volumes are in the NFS-mounted volume. There are about a dozen Win2K workstations on the network served

Re: nfs server not working with 6.2-RELEASE

2007-01-13 Thread Jay Chandler
Jonathan Horne wrote: updated my NFS server to 6.2-RELEASE last night. today, i find that freebsd or linux clinets alike, are all getting: athena:/usr/src: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Timed out i cant think of what to check. the nfs server has this in the /etc/rc.conf: rpcbind_enable=YES

Re: nfs server not working with 6.2-RELEASE

2007-01-13 Thread Jonathan Horne
On 1/13/07, Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: updated my NFS server to 6.2-RELEASE last night. today, i find that freebsd or linux clinets alike, are all getting: athena:/usr/src: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Timed out i cant think of what to check. the nfs server has

Re: nfs server not working with 6.2-RELEASE

2007-01-13 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 13 January 2007 17:47, Jonathan Horne wrote: On 1/13/07, Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: updated my NFS server to 6.2-RELEASE last night. today, i find that freebsd or linux clinets alike, are all getting: athena:/usr/src: RPCPROG_MNT:

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
DSA - JCR wrote: I have read it and downloaded, but it seems to be something obsolete (v. 3.5 is from 2004) and I suspect they hasn't made nothing new. It supports NFSv3 and TCP mounts which (right now) is all you want. We'll see if MS start to support NFSv4, but right now, IIRC, even BSD

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-20 Thread DSA - JCR
I am mounting a NFS server (FreeBSD 6.1 amd64) for a MS Windows Network for a customer and I see that I can not see the NFS server from windows boxes. Must I install Samba for that? or anything in the MS Windows boxes? I thougth that Windows understand NFS but seems to be not. I've

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-20 Thread DSA - JCR
HI all and thanks for your answers My main goal is to have a system in which the local network can get access to the file repository, and also thay can get access from their homes to them (only get a file from server, work on it, and post it to the server). For this reason I thougth in NFS only

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
Can I have the two? NFS and Samba? There is no reason you can't. I run NFS between Unix machines and Samba with MS world. But there could be strange results if on Xp machines connects to the same file using both NFS and Samba at same time. Olivier

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jun 20, 2006, at 2:04 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote: Can I have the two? NFS and Samba? There is no reason you can't. I run NFS between Unix machines and Samba with MS world. But there could be strange results if on Xp machines connects to the same file using both NFS and Samba at same time.

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I am mounting a NFS server (FreeBSD 6.1 amd64) for a MS Windows Network for a customer and I see that I can not see the NFS server from windows boxes. Must I install Samba for that? or anything in the MS Windows boxes? I thougth that Windows understand NFS but seems to

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-19 Thread Barnaby Scott
On Mon, June 19, 2006 9:17 pm, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I am mounting a NFS server (FreeBSD 6.1 amd64) for a MS Windows Network for a customer and I see that I can not see the NFS server from windows boxes. Must I install Samba for that? or anything in the MS Windows boxes? I thougth that

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-19 Thread Jona Joachim
DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I am mounting a NFS server (FreeBSD 6.1 amd64) for a MS Windows Network for a customer and I see that I can not see the NFS server from windows boxes. Must I install Samba for that? or anything in the MS Windows boxes? I thougth that Windows understand NFS but

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-19 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I am mounting a NFS server (FreeBSD 6.1 amd64) for a MS Windows Network for a customer and I see that I can not see the NFS server from windows boxes. Must I install Samba for that? or anything in the MS Windows boxes? I thougth that Windows

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-19 Thread FBSD_UG
On 19 jun 2006, at 22:17, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I am mounting a NFS server (FreeBSD 6.1 amd64) for a MS Windows Network for a customer and I see that I can not see the NFS server from windows boxes. Must I install Samba for that? or anything in the MS Windows boxes? I thougth that

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jun 19, 2006, at 3:38 PM, FBSD_UG wrote: On 19 jun 2006, at 22:17, DSA - JCR wrote: Must I install Samba for that? or anything in the MS Windows boxes? I thougth that Windows understand NFS but seems to be not. Windows doesn't understand NFS; this is almost purely a Unix creation. I

Re: NFS server not responding, new in 6.0

2006-05-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
David Kirchner wrote: We recently replaced FreeBSD 4.5 with 6.0-RELEASE on a pair of servers. One of the servers runs rsync to copy its contents to the other server, over a NFS mount. Everything worked just fine under 4.5, but with 6.0, we're seeing dozens of these errors every rsync: May 2

Re: NFS server not responding, new in 6.0

2006-05-02 Thread Bill Moran
David Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We recently replaced FreeBSD 4.5 with 6.0-RELEASE on a pair of servers. One of the servers runs rsync to copy its contents to the other server, over a NFS mount. Everything worked just fine under 4.5, but with 6.0, we're seeing dozens of these errors

RE: nfs server

2006-01-06 Thread Webster, Andrew
Michael, If /usr/local/www is not a mount point, this will not work. You need to put the mount point (eg: /usr) in /etc/exports, and add the option -alldirs to allow it to mount a subdirectory of the mount point. Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: nfs server

2006-01-06 Thread Michael Landin Hostbaek
Michael P. Soulier (msoulier) writes: Hello, I'm configuring nfsd on my freebsd box, and trying to mount from my linux box. I keep getting permission denied on the linux side, and I'm not sure why. My local network is 192.168.1.0/24. I've added this to /etc/exports. /usr/local/www

Re: nfs server

2006-01-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 1/6/06, Michael Landin Hostbaek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look alright. After adding the line to /etc/exports - mountd(8) needs to re-read the file. So do: # kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid` You can also use 'showmount -e' to see the configured exports list. Hmm. I restarted nfsd,

Re: nfs server

2006-01-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 1/6/06, Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, If /usr/local/www is not a mount point, this will not work. You need to put the mount point (eg: /usr) in /etc/exports, and add the option -alldirs to allow it to mount a subdirectory of the mount point. It would appear that my

Re: nfs server

2006-01-06 Thread Ceri Davies
On 6 Jan 2006, at 16:33, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 1/6/06, Webster, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, If /usr/local/www is not a mount point, this will not work. You need to put the mount point (eg: /usr) in /etc/exports, and add the option -alldirs to allow it to mount a

Re: nfs server overload (nfsd)

2005-12-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:19:10AM +0100, Angel Blazquez wrote: Hello, We are expecting incredible overload in a NFS server. A top shows nfsd consuming most of the CPU: PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 6000 root -80 1204K 660K

Re: nfs server amd problems

2005-06-10 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 10. Juni 2005 09:51 schrieb Osmany Guirola Cruz: Hi people I have installed a 5.3 STABLE box with automount(amd) daemon working perfectly with the defaults flags(/net /host) and the nfs server exporting only my home. all this work but then i upgrade my system to 5.4 and

Re: nfs server amd problems

2005-06-10 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
I am using -stable and i do the upgrade via CTM in the freebsd site the last ctm is src-5.0393.gz 06/09/05 i hope that with this was sufficient to solve the problem ;-) this are the affected file with the ctm file 92 and 93 FS .ctm_status FN contrib/tcpdump/print-bgp.c FN

Re: nfs server amd problems

2005-06-10 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 10. Juni 2005 10:32 schrieb Osmany Guirola Cruz: I am using -stable and i do the upgrade via CTM in the freebsd site the last ctm is src-5.0393.gz 06/09/05 i hope that with this was sufficient to solve the problem ;-) this are the affected file with the ctm file 92 and 93 FS

Re: nfs server amd problems

2005-06-10 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
:-) I have many restrictions in my network and i can't use cvs or cvsup to update my port or src tree :-( the only way it's CTM fortunally it exists i hope that never disapear... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:22:30AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm using an nfs mount to get at the underlying file system on a system that uses unionfs mounts ... instead of using nullfs, which, last time I used it over a year ago, caused

Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again

2004-10-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Alex de Kruijff wrote: I think you're problem is not that you disk is used havely but that you're NIC (rsync kinda does that) is. The warnings you get indicate that you're computer can't get a responce from you're server. It acts normaly as soon as it can. Except, the nfs

Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again

2004-10-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: What kind of network topology is between the two machines? Do you notice a high load on the hub/switch/routers during these activities? You may be able to improve the intervening network topology to improve the problem as well. My bad ... I thought i had

Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again

2004-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: What kind of network topology is between the two machines? Do you notice a high load on the hub/switch/routers during these activities? You may be able to improve the intervening network topology to

Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again

2004-10-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: What kind of network topology is between the two machines? Do you notice a high load on the hub/switch/routers during these activities? You may be able to improve the intervening

Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again

2004-10-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:22:30AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm using an nfs mount to get at the underlying file system on a system that uses unionfs mounts ... instead of using nullfs, which, last time I used it over a year ago, caused the server to crash to no end ... But, as

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-06-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
** Reply to note from adp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 31 May 2004 12:33:24 -0500 I was thinking that since NFS is udp-based, that if the primary NFS server failed, and the secondary assumed the primary NFS server's IP address, that things would at least return to normal (of course, any writes

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 02:43:37AM -0500, adp wrote: I am running a FreeBSD 4.9-REL NFS server. Once every several hours our main NFS server replicates everything to a backup FreeBSD NFS server. We are okay with the gap in time between replication. What we aren't sure about is how to automate

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
adp wrote: One of my big problems right now is that if our primary NFS server goes down then everything using that NFS mount locks up. If I change to the mounted filesystem on the client then it stalls: # pwd /root # cd /nfs-mount-dir [locks] If I try to reboot the reboot fails as well since

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread adp
We can live with the chance that a file write might fail as long as we can switch over to another NFS server if the primary fails. So amd will help us avoid the client hung issue? I will have to take a look. That is the worst thing of all when it comes to a failed NFS server. You can't even

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread adp
- From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: adp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 11:55 AM Subject: Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it? adp wrote: One of my big problems right now is that if our primary NFS server goes down then everything using

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
adp wrote: We can live with the chance that a file write might fail as long as we can switch over to another NFS server if the primary fails. Sorry, NFS simply won't work with the model of operation you've described. There is no way to do fallback to a secondary NFS server if the primary goes

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 31), adp said: Very useful information, thanks. We have a very stable NFS server, but I am still working hard to put some redundancy into place. I was thinking that since NFS is udp-based, that if the primary NFS server failed, and the secondary assumed the primary NFS

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread scion+freebsd-questions
Couple of issues regarding failover. 1) If system B is going to take over system a's IP, it also needs to take it's MAC address. Else you have to wait for an ARP timeout. Some systems (all?) perform a gratuitous arp-reply when an if comes up. But some other systems ignore this

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread horio shoichi
On Sun, 30 May 2004 02:43:37 -0500 adp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running a FreeBSD 4.9-REL NFS server. Once every several hours our main NFS server replicates everything to a backup FreeBSD NFS server. We are okay with the gap in time between replication. What we aren't sure about is how

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-30 Thread Mike Woods
On Sun, 30 May 2004 02:43:37 -0500 adp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious how this problem is being solved. I cant say i've ever looked into it myself but id susjest an easy solution would be to have a cron script store run every now and again to ping the servers and change the mounts

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-30 Thread adp
One of my big problems right now is that if our primary NFS server goes down then everything using that NFS mount locks up. If I change to the mounted filesystem on the client then it stalls: # pwd /root # cd /nfs-mount-dir [locks] If I try to reboot the reboot fails as well since FreeBSD can't

Re: NFS server usage

2004-02-28 Thread Scott W
Charles Swiger wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:57 PM, Michael Conlen wrote: [ ... ] The production system will use dual channel U320 RAID controllers with 12 disks per channel, so disk shouldn't be an issue, and it will connect with GigE, so network is plenty fine, now I'm on to CPU. Sounds

Re: NFS server usage

2004-02-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 26, 2004, at 2:30 PM, Michael Conlen wrote: Does FreeBSD's NFS implementation allow for caching of documents on the client side, either its self or through the VM system's inactive pages? Yes to both. NFS clients typically use something called biod or nfsoid, which implements some

Re: NFS server usage

2004-02-26 Thread Michael Conlen
On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:33 PM, Charles Swiger wrote: Well, you are going to be bottlenecked potentially by your network or by the maximum I/O rate that your NFS server can sustain. Your data suggests you ought to be able to handle about two orders of magnitude more net traffic, if you're over a

Re: NFS server usage

2004-02-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:57 PM, Michael Conlen wrote: [ ... ] The production system will use dual channel U320 RAID controllers with 12 disks per channel, so disk shouldn't be an issue, and it will connect with GigE, so network is plenty fine, now I'm on to CPU. Sounds like you've gotten nice

Re: NFS server and files 2G (STABLE)

2003-09-30 Thread Marc Ramirez
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:10:23AM -0400, stan wrote: I'm having a bit of a problem using a FeeBSD STABLE machine as an NFS server for an HP-UXa box. I'm able to mount the FreeBSD box, abd see the files, but take a look at this: ... So, I'm thinking that I've got a problem with files 2G Does

Re: NFS server and files 2G (STABLE)

2003-09-30 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:40, stan wrote: I'm having a bit of a problem using a FeeBSD STABLE machine as an NFS server for an HP-UXa box. I'm able to mount the FreeBSD box, abd see the files, but take a look at this: On teh FreeBSD machine $ ls -l total 11471104 -rw-rw-r-- 1 stan wheel

Re: NFS server and files 2G (STABLE)

2003-09-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:10:23AM -0400, stan wrote: Same place seen from the HP-UX machine $ ls -l total 45884416 -rw-rw-r-- 1 1004 root 3153586176 Sep 24 08:34 oracle_dump.09242003 So, I'm thinking that I've got a problem with files 2G Does this make sense? Yep, and it's

Re: NFS server redundancy/failover

2003-09-29 Thread Matthias Teege
Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know if and how it is possible to set up a redundant NFS server? Somthing like that is expensive and mostly not needed. Rsync with a hot standby system is ok. If the mainserver fail, go to the second and reconfigure the ip interface. Bis

Re: NFS server redundancy/failover

2003-09-29 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hi Matthias Thank you for your answer. I think I'll do it that way, I was wondering if it would have been possible, Solaris supports giving multiple servers when mounting NFS shares, but I couldn't find something similar on FreeBSD and Linux. Kind regards Guy On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 14:30,

Re: NFS server redundancy/failover

2003-09-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Guy Van Sanden wrote: [ ... ] Does anyone know if and how it is possible to set up a redundant NFS server? Yes, although true redundancy for NFS is available only for read-only shares. From man mount_nfs under Solaris: Replicated file systems and failover resource can list

Re: NFS server redundancy/failover

2003-09-29 Thread Matthias Teege
Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Matthias Moin, Thank you for your answer. I think I'll do it that way, I was wondering if it would have been possible, Solaris supports giving There isnt any out-of-the-box solution for BSD. You can hack arround the problem. multiple servers

Re: NFS server not respnding!

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
[I'm taking this off -stable because it really doesn't belong there] Hartmann, O. wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Bill Moran wrote: Hello Bill. :Hartmann, O. wrote: : Dear Sirs. : : Using FreeBSD 4.6.2-pl2 and FreeBSD 4.7-RC2 on our server system (one 4.7-RC : experimental system) and

Re: NFS server not respnding!

2002-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
Hartmann, O. wrote: Dear Sirs. Using FreeBSD 4.6.2-pl2 and FreeBSD 4.7-RC2 on our server system (one 4.7-RC experimental system) and utilizing AMD for mounting home space and other services via TCP protocol results in nfs server 134.93.180.216:/usr/homes: not responding nfs server

Re: NFS server not respnding!

2002-10-10 Thread Hartmann, O.
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Bill Moran wrote: Hello Bill. :Hartmann, O. wrote: : Dear Sirs. : : Using FreeBSD 4.6.2-pl2 and FreeBSD 4.7-RC2 on our server system (one 4.7-RC : experimental system) and utilizing AMD for mounting home space and other : services via TCP protocol results in : : nfs server