Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:34:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:34:31 -0500 Received: from 115.8.237.216.globalpac.com ([216.237.8.115]:58506 "EHLO mail.yessos.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:34:30 -0500 Message-ID: <3E110417.1050209@tmsusa.com> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:42:31 -0800 From: J Sloan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Robert Ladd CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: [2.5.52] NFS works with 2.4.20, not with Win2K/SFU References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1925 Lines: 59 No telling what kind of odd bugs could be in ms services for unix, I was not at all impressed with what I saw of it at Linux world last Aug - It seemed to be mostly a broken toy... My experience suggests that you'll have much better luck using samba for your unix-to-pc connectivity needs. Just a thought, Joe Scott Robert Ladd wrote: >Heck if I know whose bug this is... > >One of my systems runs kernel 2.5.52; its NFS shares mount fine with my >2.4.20 system, and the 2.4.20 shares mount properly on the 2.5.52 system. >All's happy in Linuxland. > >Unfortunately, Windows is *not* happy. My system using Windows 2000 >w/"Services for Unix" can mount the NFS exports from the 2.4.20 machine -- >but while the Win2K box can *see* the 2.5.52 shares, it suffers terribly >when trying to mount them -- sometimes locking up, sometimes telling me the >share can't be found. > >Another oddity: The Win2k machine sees the 2.4.20 system by IP address, and >the 2.5.52 system by name. > >I have the 2.5.52 kernel compiled for NFS4. Both the 2.5.52 system and >2.4.20 have identical /etc/exports and /etc/hosts. > >I'm quite willing to lay this in the lap of those jolly folk in Redmond, but >I was wondering if anyone knew of incompatibility between 2.5.52 NFS and >Win2K/SFU. > >..Scott > >-- >Scott Robert Ladd >Coyote Gulch Productions, http://www.coyotegulch.com >No ads -- just very free (and somewhat unusual) code. > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/