Hi, I'm also having a few problems with NFS on SuSE 10. I am trying to mount resources from a SLES 9 machine, presumably set up for nfsvers 3??? Each boot time, I get the error message that the "server reports TCP unavailable, resorting to UDP". I also occasionally see error messages to the effect of "server reports nfsvers 4 not available, switching to version 3". All in all, it means that each time I reboot my SuSE 10 machine, I have to log in as root and issue the command: mount -vat nfs, and more often than not this will pick up the nfs drives that aren't being mounted at boot time. FYI, here's the lines from /etc/fstab: 163.1.82.28:/home /home nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,bg,nfsvers=3 0 0 163.1.82.28:/home1 /home1 nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,bg,nfsvers=3 0 0 163.1.82.28:/home2 /home2 nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,bg,nfsvers=3 0 0 What are the implications of using UDP and nfsvers=2 on security/performance etc.???? Anyone know what's going on? I have another AMD64 machine (SuSE 9.3), which has exactly the same problem. Best wishes, Jon. Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 15:21 -0500, Dan Nash wrote:
I have an Apple OS X 10.4.3 that was successfully connected to Suse Linux 9.2 NFS server. I upgraded to Suse 10.0 and now the Apple cannot find the Linux server. It can successfully ping the Linux IP address. What settings do I need when starting the Linux NFS services? There must be some differences between 9.2 and 10.0 that I'm missing.
Probably the same thing I went through with OS-9 (Microware, not Apple) connectivity. The 2.6 kernel (where NFS now lives) uses a newer version of NFS by default. It also uses udp instead of tcp.
Can you mount an export from OS/X on SUSE 10.0?
When mounting on SUSE 10.0, I needed to add this to the fstab options:
udp,nfsvers=2
I do not know how you specify this when exporting. Or even if you can. But maybe this will get you started in the right direction.
Hope this helps.
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