niklas@appli.se (Niklas Hallqvist) (11/03/90)
Hello NFS people! About a month ago I posted the following article: > I have a TCP/IP network with NFS on top of it. Some of the > nodes run Interactive 386/ix 2.0.1 (I think) who acts rather strangely > when I try to set file attributes. If some attributes are unspecified > (e.g uid, gid or mode) they get changed anyway to -1. I know this is > mentioned in the NFS manual for 386/ix. What I'm asking here is not > why this happens, that I understand, but what to do about it. Does > someone know how to patch nfsd or nfs.o? Have someone done a new > version of the RP (remote procedure) which handles the set file attributes > call? Or maybe a RPC filter listening to the original NFS socket, > forwarding some calls to a another port, after reconfiguring nfsd to > listen this new port, and implementing new versions of other RPs. > I'm interested in hints, partial or complete solutions to my problem. I didn't get any answer and I saw no followups either. The fact is: I'm not the only one having this problem, there is at least one other site in Sweden having the same difficulties (but in their case with 386/ix 2.2). I plea, don't pass by this article if you got any ideas of what I can do. Thanks in advance, Niklas -- Niklas Hallqvist Phone: +46-(0)31-40 75 00 Applitron Datasystem Fax: +46-(0)31-83 39 50 Molndalsvagen 95 Email: niklas@appli.se S-412 63 GOTEBORG, Sweden mcsun!sunic!chalmers!appli!niklas