>Sent: vrijdag 19 november 2004 18:12 >To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Remote NFS problems > >I have several Sun Solaris 8 and RedHat Linux 9 NFS servers. From >inside our building all is good. From home, on my Sun or my Linux box >I've defined each server in /etc/hosts and I can mount and operate on >any file system that I like weather it's from a Sun or Linux >NFS server. > >We have an employee who lives across the county and he's on >Verizon DSL. >He's running RedHat 9 on his workstation. He can get to the Sun >exported NFS shares just fine but he can not get to anything that's >shared off of any of the RedHat servers. Meanwhile I can get to them >just fine. He sees nothing more than a timeout most of the time. >Although sometimes he can get into a share, maybe get part of >an ls or a >do a more on a file before seeing a timeout. > >Does this sound like it's a client problem or a server problem? What >should I be looking at to try and resolve this problem? We >have about a >dozen Sun servers that he's fine with (and he even builds >software whose >source is remote mounted) and about half as many Linux servers that >exhibit this problem. > >Any ideas? We had some client problems reaching NFS shares via a PIX firewall and found this very useful information from Network Appliance about NFS a.o. special mount options: http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/ftp/3183.pdf Hope it's of any help to you. Cheers, Andre -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
