I recently upgraded the Suse 9.3 on the AMD 64 and found some interesting problems and workarounds. I like to use the nfs server to share the disk drives and autofs. I have found that whenever I use the kernel NFS server, nfsutils I can freeze the machine up. /etc/exports file /export/home0 sirus(rw,sync) polaris(rw,sync) When I try to connect to the machien from another distro Mandrake 9.2 with ls /net/crab/export/home0/loo the machine will lockup tight as a drum. If I use the user version of the nfsserver no problem. Another issue I have is the autofs. I like to have the options on the autfs to be soft, interruptable, and a short timeout period. /etc/auto.master# # $Id: auto.master,v 1.3 2003/09/29 08:22:35 raven Exp $ # # Sample auto.master file # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # For details of the format look at autofs(5). /home /etc/auto.home -rw,soft,intr --timeout-30 #/misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=30 /misc /etc/auto.misc -rw,soft,intr --timeout=30 /net /etc/auto.net -rw,soft,intr --timeout=30 the autofs barf at the following setting. but if you change the options to: # # $Id: auto.master,v 1.3 2003/09/29 08:22:35 raven Exp $ # # Sample auto.master file # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # For details of the format look at autofs(5). /home /etc/auto.home -rw,soft,intr --timeout 30 #/misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=30 /misc /etc/auto.misc -rw,soft,intr --timeout 30 /net /etc/auto.net -rw,soft,intr --timeout 30 It will work fine. the example in the auto.master is wrong with the "=". Nowhere it seems in the documentation mention this change. The only way I found it is to look at the /etc/autofs script. I think when you change the operation, the example should be fixed and the documentation should be updated. I have been trying to get the /net function to work in SUSE 9.3. sor far no luck. I have to admit, it has gone farther this time. Before you could not list the exported directory. loo@crab:~> ls /net/sirus/export/home/ /bin/ls: /net/sirus/export/home/: No such file or directory I have on sirus the following /etc/exports # /etc/exports: NFS file systems being exported. See exports(5). /export/home sirus(rw,no_subtree_check,async) crab(sync,rw,no_subtree_check) polaris(sync,rw,no_subtree_check) I can not see anything wrong with exports moachine/ I am running gentoo on the machine 2004.r3. -- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org