flint@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Daniel Baldoni) (02/28/91)
G'day all - this may have been discussed before but I'm having real hassles,
and I need a quick solution.
We've got a network comprising of two SPARC-1's (running 4.0.3), a SPARC-2
(running 4.1.1), two IPC's (running 4.1.1), a VAX-11/785 (running Ultrix-32
V3.0 [Rev64]), an IBM RS6000/320 (running AIX) and several Silicon Graphics
IRIS workstations (running IRIX 3.3.2).
Just about everything is crossmounting file systems from somewhere!
The links to/from the IRIS's are fine. The link between the two IPC's is fine
as is the link between the two SPARC-1's. The SPARC-2 is minding it's own
business (as it belongs to another department, that's as it should be).
The problem is between the VAX and the IPC's. Now, it (the VAX) will quite
happily mount/utilise the filesystems exported from the IPC's and they will
quite happily mount the VAX's exported filesystems. But, after a short
period (the length of which appears to be indeterminate), I start getting
messages of the form:
NFS [fsstat|getattr] failed for server cutmcvax:
RPC: Authentication error
It further tells me:
why = Invalid client credential
Once this appears, you've got no way of accessing those file systems and they
need to be unmounted (just so df, ls, etc. don't screw up). Once you've
unmounted them, you can't remount them.
In desperation, I told the VAX to export the file systems in question to ANY
host that asked for them. And, I still got that message!
If anybody out there knows what's going on, PLEASE let me know immediately
at the address listed below.
If this turns out to be a faulty setup on my part, I'm quite willing to face
that (and admit I'm an idiot) - it's just that this thing is really getting
to me.
Thanks for any information anybody can provide.
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Daniel Baldoni
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