RE: Question about NFS

Ahmon,

Thanks so much...it works perfectly.  To get a fix 16 minutes after my request is nothing short of amazing!  Great work.

Thanks again,
Keith


-----Original Message-----
From:	Ahmon Dancy [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent:	Sat 5/10/2003 9:29 AM
To:	Keith Barr
Cc:	[email protected]; [email protected]
Subject:	Re: Question about NFS 

Keith, please grab 

ftp://ftp.franz.com/pri/dancy/nfs-1.1.3.zip and see if it works better
for you.  I made a minor change which I believe will fix you up.


>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am in the process of trying to get Allegro NFSd to work to replace
>> Microsoft's Services for Unix, which runs okay on Win2000, but I can't
>> get it to work with XP.  My problem is that the device that is mounting
>> the NFS drive is a VxWorks-based system, and it seems to be very picky
>> about working-basically, I am admitting that Allegro may work fine and
>> VxWorks may not, but I am looking for suggestions regardless.
>> 
>> The problem is that when VxWorks starts up it does something along the
>> lines of a showmount -e on the PC running NFS, but it doesn't seem to be
>> getting any info back.  When I run the command on a linux box I do see a
>> different behavior between Allegro and SFU, and I am wondering if there
>> is anyway that I can make Allegro conform without getting into the
>> source code?
>> 
>> When I run showmount -e PCwithSFU I get:
>> 
>> /CLIPR (everyone) <---- Services for UNIX result
>> 
>> When I run showmount -e PCwithAllegro I get:
>> 
>> /CLIPR *  <---- Allegro NFSd result
>> 
>> I am guessing this difference is causing the problem...any ideas?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for whatever help you can provide...other than this,
>> Allegro seems much easier to use than SFU.
>> 
>> Keith Barr
>> Software Discipline Manager
>> Coherent Technologies, Inc.