[suse-sles-e] Any Suggestions on accessing /home directories on Linux Workstations (without NFS) ??

From: Rasmus Borup Hansen (rbh_at_math.ku.dk)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2006 - 20:48:01 CEST


From: Rasmus Borup Hansen <rbh@math.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <17657.53729.805861.476081@galois.math.ku.dk>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 20:48:01 +0200
Subject: [suse-sles-e] Any Suggestions on accessing /home directories on Linux Workstations (without NFS) ??

Mike Petersen writes:
> Right now the problem I am having is to allow the students have access
> to their /home directory and the newspaper and yearbook shared
> directories. For the past few weeks we have been using NFS /home
> directories and I am running into all sorts of errors from locking
> problems to "stale" files. This seems to be a problem with the SLES10
> implementation of NFS as last year we had no problems sharing the /home
> directory across all of our servers.

I've also had various NFS problems like lockd hanging (which as far as
I know requires a reboot to fix because the hanging lockd survives an
"rcnfsserver restart") and error messages like

nfsd: recvfrom returned errno 107

which an "rcnfsserver restart" solves.

These problems are with SuSE 10.0. I haven't tries SLES 10 with real
users yet.

My servers are now 64 bit machines. I never had any problems with 32
bit machines, but that was with older kernels. Could it be 64 bit
problems we're running into?

Does anyone have experience with NFSv4 or NFSv3 secured with Kerberos
on SLES10?

Best regards,

Rasmus

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