From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 13:24:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA10597 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:24:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from taurus.dnaent.com (taurus.dnaent.com [206.50.94.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA10580 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:24:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from taurus.dnaent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by taurus.dnaent.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA00392 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:24:03 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <329A0E73.167EB0E7@dnaent.com> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:24:03 -0600 From: Chuck Kelly Organization: DNA Enterprises, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Netscape NFS File Locking Problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am having a problem with netscape on our FreeBSD machines. Currently, we use Sun Sparcstations running Solaris for our file servers. The users are all running FreeBSD and automounting their home directories from the Sun's. A problem is encountered with Netscape. The users can receive their mail just fine. However, when they try send send mail, the get an NFS file locking error. Right now all of the user are popping remote shells from the Sun's and running Netscape. This technique although it works, wastes valuable bandwidth and slows the overall performance of Netscape. Has anyone seen or resolved this problem? Chuck Chuck Kelly Systems Administrator DNA Enterprises, Inc. ckelly@dnaent.com http://www.dnaent.com