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Chris Ridd  
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 More options May 11, 11:47 am
Newsgroups: alt.solaris.x86
From: Chris Ridd <chrisr...@mac.com>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 16:47:29 +0100
Local: Sun, May 11 2008 11:47 am
Subject: Re: opensolaris: cant mount nfs disk
On 2008-05-11 16:16:59 +0100, Dave Uhring <daveuhr...@yahoo.com> said:

> On Sun, 11 May 2008 13:43:49 +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:
>> On 2008-05-11 13:32:32 +0100, Dave Uhring <daveuhr...@yahoo.com> said:
>>> On Sun, 11 May 2008 10:44:26 +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:

>>>> Is the Solaris NFSv4 client doing something wrong, or the NFSv4 server
>>>> doing something wrong? It is a pity to have to downgrade to v3...

>>> The Solaris client *should* adapt to the capability of the server without
>>> a kluge like that.  It does not.

>> I suppose there are a couple of things to ask then: a) why isn't NFSv4
>> working, and b) as it isn't, why isn't the downgrade to NFSv3 working?

> I don't know how an NFSv4-only client can connect to an NFSv3 server

OK, I didn't think it was an NFSv4-only client.

> unless the client is smart enough to use NFSv3.  The one in Solaris is not
> that smart.  Neither S10u4, S10u5, OpenSolaris nor any of the Nevada
> builds are capable of mounting an NFSv3 share without modifying
> /etc/default/nfs.

They can't even mount an NFSv4 share from some kinds of servers :-(

> Hack /etc/default/nfs and the Solaris client easily mounts the NFSv3 share.

Yep, that's pretty much the first thing we do with a new box...

Cheers,

Chris


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