We have recently obtained an F740. I have a problem when I attempt to export a shared area from the filer to any of our Digital UNIX clients. The problem is that on the alpha client, root can read and access files as normal, but if a normal user does even something as simple as a

ls -lt /mnt

an error message is produced:

NFS3 RFS3_ACCESS failed for server toaster : RPC: Server can't decode arguments /mnt: I/O error

The exports file has the share exported with

-ro,access=hostname,root=hostname

where hostname is a FQDN.

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.

Any help or pointers are appreciated. Thanks.

(BTW, I haven't yet dealt with the fact that when exporting from the filer to one of our ULTRIX boxes, a simple "ls -lt /mnt" by a non-root user results in the mount point changing to these permissions, and the share essentially disappearing.

---------- 0 root 0 Dec 31 1969 /mnt

I'll get to that eyesore later.)