I'll try to orginize this all in a more coherent writeup later (if I'm successful) but if anyone is attempting to backport nfsv4 to suse 9.3 x86_64 and you are building it from the instructions found at http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/user-build.html you will soon learn that while compiling the libgssapi, the "configure" complains about the following: susebox:/build/NFS4/libgssapi-0.4 # ./configure ... checking for Kerberos v5... configure: error: Kerberos v5 with GSS support not found susebox:/build/NFS4/libgssapi-0.4 # At the end of this email is the diff on how to hack a fix into the "configure" script so this false statement can be corrected and allow you to compile. Basically the for loop does not look in /usr/lib/mit which is where krb5-config is ultimately found (/usr/lib/mit/bin/krb5-config). But that still doesn't do you any good since it returns that libs are installed in "/usr/lib/mit" HOWEVER the configure script is looking for "include/gssapi/gssapi_krb5.h and "lib/libgssapi_krb5.so" and these guys are install with the prefix "/usr" NOT "/usr/lib/mit". Furthermore it not picking up "/usr/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so" which it should since this is a 64-bit installation. The first problem is CITI didn't think to look in /usr/lib/mit which is paritially a suse issue since this seems like a really non-standard location. The second is a suse package problem which is confusing the correct thinking of the "configure" script to look for build information from the krb5-config program. Not sure who owns the 64-bit issues: Suse or CITI. I hope this is corrected somehow in Suse 10 Update 1. Anybody else working this issue that's further along that I am or would like to collaborate? susebox:/build/NFS4 # diff -Naur libgssapi-0.4/configure configure.new --- libgssapi-0.4/configure 2005-05-02 16:22:25.000000000 -0400 +++ configure.new 2005-08-10 17:43:11.202009000 -0400 @@ -22909,7 +22909,7 @@ fi; for dir in $krb5_with /usr /usr/kerberos /usr/local /usr/local/krb5 \ - /usr/krb5 /usr/heimdal /usr/local/heimdal /usr/athena ; do + /usr/krb5 /usr/heimdal /usr/local/heimdal /usr/athena /usr/lib/mit; do K5CONFIG="" if test -f $dir/bin/krb5-config; then K5CONFIG=$dir/bin/krb5-config @@ -22925,9 +22925,9 @@ #define KRB5_VERSION $K5VERS _ACEOF - if test -f $dir/include/gssapi/gssapi_krb5.h -a \ - \( -f $dir/lib/libgssapi_krb5.a -o \ - -f $dir/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so \) ; then + if test -f /usr/include/gssapi/gssapi_krb5.h -a \ + \( -f /usr/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.a -o \ + -f /usr/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so \) ; then cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF #define HAVE_KRB5 susebox:/build/NFS4 # -----Original Message----- From: Gomez, Daniel [mailto:dgomez@tigr.ORG] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:55 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: RE: [opensuse] NFSv4 Well, I just installed Suse 10 and I was hugely disappointed to see that the mount command does not support "nfs4" in the vfstype option. Does anyone know if nfs4 will be included in any of the upcoming beta relases of 10? Thanks, -----Original Message----- From: Gomez, Daniel [mailto:dgomez@tigr.ORG] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 6:26 AM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse] NFSv4 I'm interested in using NFSv4 on Suse and would like to know where I can find more information on the inclusion of NFSv4 on the upcoming Suse 10 release. The following link is a search in Bugzilla for NFS in suse 10 but there were no hits. https://bugzilla.novell.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=rele vance+desc&bug_status=__all__&product=SUSE+LINUX+10.0&content=NFS I've started some basic testing of NFS using Fedora Core 3 to simply familiarize myself with new procedures and features involved in NFSv4 and though NFSv4 will likey be included in Suse 10 in about a month at it's official release, I think the time spent looking at the setup details will only further my understanding of it. However, it would be helpful to see how suse is planning on implimenting it's inclusion in version 10, which I assume it is, so my learning is as accurate to the official suse implimentation as possible. Also I'm interested in any feedback from users who have introduced NFSv4 on linux into production. It seems Red Hat introduced NFSv4 into production in their RHELv4 release. Has anybody had an issues that would suggest the inclusion was premature especially in light of the NFSv4 websites below that seem to suggest that the linux implimentation is not yet completely finished? Thanks, Reference Links --------------------------- NFSv4 - Linux Web Portal http://playground.sun.com/pub/nfsv4/webpage/ Learning NFSv4 with Fedora Core 2 (backporting) http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/NFSv4/NFSv4-no-rpcsec.html