SOLVED: nfs mounts from alien machines

From: <CN=Tim_Bennett/O=GAM_at_NOTES-Xchng_at_ccmsmtpgw.gam.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 16:19:00 gmt

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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