I have a site here(CFO 5.2.1P2-F740) attached to a DEC running 4.0E via GigE that is using NFS & CIFS; save installing some DEC patches for their GigE card the system has been running fine..
-----Original Message----- From: Muhlestein, Mark [mailto:mark.muhlestein@netapp.com] Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 7:49 PM To: 'sirbruce@ix.netcom.com'; jgaski@WPI.EDU; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Digital UNIX clients -- no non-root access
I'm not sure what your problem is, but I can verify that internally here at NetApp we use DU 4.0D (rev 878) extensively on several Alpha machines against multiple filers with no issues. We have also run with 4.0E. What version of the filer software are you running?
Mark Muhlestein -- mmm@netapp.com
-----Original Message----- From: sirbruce@ix.netcom.com [mailto:sirbruce@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 6:39 PM To: jgaski@WPI.EDU; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Digital UNIX clients -- no non-root access
On 04/26/99 21:11:27 you wrote:
I have an open call with Network Appliance, but they have said that there must be something strange in Compaq's implementation of the NFS client. The same error occurs on Digital UNIX 4.0D pl3, 4.0E pl1, and 5.0 beta. It occurs whether the mount is soft or hard, udp or tcp, nfsv3 or nfsv2.
It seems like such a large, ubiquitous error that I can't believe noone would have seen it before. I thought that Digital UNIX support was standard, and I can't imagine how all of our Alpha clients could be non-standard in such a way.
You'd be surprised. Lots of vendors have little quirks in their implementation that, while they happen to work okay with one server, are really out of spec and may not work with another.
However, I know that Digital Unix *used* to work, but the last I ever saw personally work was 4.0C. So either they've changed something, or something in the new Netapp release fixed/broke something.
Bruce