NetApp filer -- no non-root access for DU clients

From: Joanna Gaski <jgaski_at_WPI.EDU>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:15:05 -0400 (EDT)

We have recently obtained a Network Appliance F740. I have a problem
when I attempt to export a shared area from the filer to any of our
Digital UNIX clients. The problem is that on the alpha client, root
can read and access files as normal, but if a normal user does even
something as simple as a

ls -lt /mnt

an error message is produced:

NFS3 RFS3_ACCESS failed for server toaster : RPC: Server can't decode arguments
/mnt: I/O error

The exports file has the share exported with

-ro,access=hostname,root=hostname

where hostname is a FQDN.

I have an open call with Network Appliance, but they have said that
there must be something strange in Compaq's implementation of the NFS
client. The same error occurs on Digital UNIX 4.0D pl3, 4.0E pl1, and
5.0 beta. It occurs whether the mount is soft or hard, udp or tcp,
nfsv3 or nfsv2.

It seems like such a large, ubiquitous error that I can't believe
noone would have seen it before. I thought that Digital UNIX support
was standard, and I can't imagine how all of our Alpha clients could
be non-standard in such a way.

Any help or pointers are appreciated. Thanks.

(BTW, I haven't yet dealt with the fact that when exporting from the
filer to one of our ULTRIX boxes, a simple "ls -lt /mnt" by a non-root
user results in the mount point changing to these permissions, and the
share essentially disappearing.

---------- 0 root 0 Dec 31 1969 /mnt

I'll get to that one later.)

Oh yeah, and exported to a Solaris 2.6 machine, non-root reads work
just fine.

Thanks.
Received on Tue Apr 27 1999 - 01:17:55 NZST

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