indra@amdcad.AMD.COM (Indra Singhal) (10/05/89)
I just installed pcnfsd and popd on our Sun 3/280 running SunOS 4.0.3. I have the following entry in /etc/inetd.conf: pcnfsd/1 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd rpc.pcnfsd and I start /usr/etc/popd from /etc/rc.local. On the PC side, testing is being done using an old IBM XT with a 3C501 card running PC-NFS 3.0. Strangely: I am able to mount a disk on the PC and type out an ascii file successfully even though the process table does not show that rpc.pcnfsd is running. I am unable to get logged in, authentication fails. Login as noboby (UID -2, GID -2) results. I am unable to redirect LPT1: (with: net use LPT1: \\host\lp). I get: NFS033F: Unable to contact PCNFSD daemon on server ... If I then manually issue: /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd (as root) to start the daemon, I get success all around. Does this mean inetd is not being able to start rpc.pcnfsd? How am I able to mount a disk on to my PC without rpc.pcnfsd even without authentication? What can I do to fix it? Popd works great. no problem. I just wondered if inetd could handle this service. Any help will be appreciated. Direct mail preferred. Thanks. -- iNDRA | indra@amdcad.AMD.COM | {ames decwrl gatech pyramid sun uunet}!amdcad!indra | MS 167; Box 3453; Sunnyvale, CA 94088
geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (10/05/89)
In article <27622@amdcad.AMD.COM> indra@amdcad.AMD.COM (Indra Singhal) writes: >I just installed pcnfsd and popd on our Sun 3/280 running SunOS 4.0.3. >I have the following entry in /etc/inetd.conf: > >pcnfsd/1 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd rpc.pcnfsd > >and I start /usr/etc/popd from /etc/rc.local. >On the PC side, testing is being done using an old IBM XT with a 3C501 >card running PC-NFS 3.0. You ought to upgrade to 3.0.1, on general principles.... >Strangely: I am able to mount a disk on the PC and type out an ascii > file successfully even though the process table does not > show that rpc.pcnfsd is running. Nothing strange about it. The current version of PC-NFS does not require that you log in, so you can mount and access file systems as NOBODY without pcnfsd being involved. [I say "the current version" because we have been asked by many people to fix things so that access as NOBODY is disallowed. Opinions?] Furthermore, when starting a service through "inetd" you wouldn't expect to see the process running. Instead you should use "rpcinfo". > I am unable to get logged in, authentication fails. Login as > noboby (UID -2, GID -2) results. > > I am unable to redirect LPT1: (with: net use LPT1: \\host\lp). > I get: NFS033F: Unable to contact PCNFSD daemon on server ... Both of these are consistent with pcnfsd not being active, or (more precisely) with inetd not registering a port for the pcnfsd program with the portmapper. >If I then manually issue: /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd (as root) to start the >daemon, I get success all around. Bingo. >Does this mean inetd is not being able to start rpc.pcnfsd? How am I able >to mount a disk on to my PC without rpc.pcnfsd even without >authentication? What can I do to fix it? I assume that the line: pcnfsd 150001 appears in /etc/rpc. Even with this, some users still have problems; the simplest fix is to change inetd.conf to include the program number instead of the name, thus: 150001/1 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd rpc.pcnfsd Not sure why this works, but it does. (Probably descriptor starvation somewhere.) If this STILL doesn't fix things, you may be trying to start too many services through inetd. I haven't checked the 4.0.3 version, but earlier inetd's were limited to 24 listen's (derived from the number of descriptors available minus 8 for other purposes). Try commenting out stuff you don't need. >iNDRA | indra@amdcad.AMD.COM Geoff Arnold, Internet: geoff@East.Sun.COM PCDS Group, Sun Microsystems Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Who's next?" "Me, doctor?" "No, ME doctor, YOU patient." (Graham Chapman, RIP)