Hi,
In an attempt to tighten our network security a bit, I've installed
the secure portmap process (
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl:/pub/security) on our
Digital Unix V4.0D machines, on our Ultrix machine as well as the Solaris
secure rpcbind counterpart under Solaris 2.5.
The Digital Unix Server is NFS exporting user home directories and
other stuff to the Solarix box where these things are auto-mounted.
The major problem I have currently is this: As soon as the Digital
Unix machine runs the secure portmap (version 4 or version 5 beta
makes no difference), the Solaris 2.5 automounter does not work
anymore! This is really weird as I can manually mount the remote
filesystem on the Solaris box without problems. Only the automounter
causes accesses to the remote filesystem to hang and "NFS server
not responding still trying" messages to appear in the logs.
Other machines like the Ultrix box and other Alphas, though
work flawlessly. Also their automounters mount the exported file
systems without problems.
On the other hand, the Ultrix box too is now running the secure portmap
as well and the Solaris box *can* auto-mount its exported file systems.
Only the Solaris 2.5 automounter doesn`t seem to like the secure
portmap running on Digital Unix. It's only this particular combination
which causes the problems. BTW: This is independend of the Solaris' own
rpcbind process, wether running the secure version or the original
version. It makes no difference.
So: I'm currently stuck and need to stick with the original portmap
on our main NFS server.
Any clue for me anyone?
Thanks a lot // Tom
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
T o m L e i t n e r Dept. of Communications
Graz University of Technology,
e-mail : tom_at_finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at Inffeldgasse 12
Phone : +43-316-873-7455 A-8010 Graz / Austria / Europe
Fax : +43-316-463-697
Home page :
http://wiis.tu-graz.ac.at/people/tom.html
PGP public key on :
ftp://wiis.tu-graz.ac.at/pgp-keys/tom.asc or send
mail with subject "get Thomas Leitner" to pgp-public-keys_at_keys.pgp.net
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Before we have the paperless office, we have the paperless toilet!
Received on Fri May 22 1998 - 19:16:03 NZST