G'day everyone.
I posted a few days about my woes with nfs mounting from non OSF/1 machines.
Well, the answer was so simple and so stupid I could kill myself, but I am
happy to say none of the following people who sent suggestions thought of
it either :-) (doesn't that make you feel really good guys? :-) )
Anyway, before I reveal all, I'd like to thank:
uchini_at_siberia.ups-tlse.fr (Marco Luchini)
"Tim Llewellyn, (0272) 288738." <tjl_at_siva.bris.ac.uk>
David Warren <warren_at_atmos.washington.edu>
=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Helleb=F8_Knut=22?= <bgk1142_at_bggfu2.nho.hydro.com>
"Hamm, Rob" <HAMMR_at_ucfv.bc.ca>
eric_at_diablo.slc.ca.gov
for their suggestions and comments.
However the answer came from, where else but that most useful series of books
but the O'Reilly & Associates series of books. In this case the "Managing
NFS and NIS" book by Hal Stern.
My problem (wait for it) was...
I was in too many groups on the client machine !
Apparently during RPC Authentication not only is the UID and hostname etc
sent to the server, but also the gid's of all the groups you are in. And
there is a maximum of 8 or 16 allowed. I was in 20 or so groups (!) and
so it was overflowing the buffers (or whatever) and so the whole thing
barfed. As soon as I deleted a few group entries, re-logged in and mounted
there was no problem.
So there you all go :-)
-richard
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Received on Sat Feb 11 1995 - 02:11:12 NZDT