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[Anthony Veale <veale@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I am having a very strange problem NFS mounting exports from a SLES 9
machine on some (but not all) of my SUSE Linux 10.1 machines.

This is a summary of the problem, though there are many more details
to be had once I figure out what forum is most appropriate for trying
to get it solved.

For two out of five 10.1 machines, we cannot NFS mount filesystems
exported from SLES 9 machines under a specific setup.

On the SLES 9 NFS server, the filesystem is exported as follows (in
/etc/exports and applied with "exportfs -a":

/home bad101host.domain.name(rw,no_root_squash,sync)

When sitting on bad101host, I issue:

mount -t nfs sles9host.domain.name:/home /tmp_mnt

On sles9host I see "rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
bad101host" appear in the /var/log/messages.

But on bad101host, the mount command hangs, never to return until
"kill -9" is applied.  (Ctrl-c and lesser kills have no effect.)

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However, if the filesystem is exported on sles9host as follows:

/home ##.##.##.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,sync)  [The "#" are replaced
					      with our subnet numbers.]

and the same mount command is issued on bad101host, I see the same
authenticated message logged on sles9host and the mount succeeds on
bad101host.

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Additionally, we have three other 10.1 machines that successfully
mount the filesystems regardless of how they are exported.

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All five of the 10.1 machines have:

nfs-utils-1.0.7-36
nfsidmap-0.12-16	[Though I don't know if this is involved.]

The SLES9 machines have:

nfs-utils-1.0.6-103.23  [And no version of nfsidmap.]

Any help, guidance, pointers would be greatly appreciated.

-- 
Anthony Vealé
National Snow and Ice Data Center
E-Mail: veale@xxxxxxxxx
Phone: (303)735-5069