From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 28 06:47:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA12713 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 06:47:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from shiva.ee.siue.edu (shiva.ee.siue.edu [146.163.130.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA12707 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 06:47:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bnoble@localhost) by shiva.ee.siue.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA01628 for questions@freefall.freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 08:51:31 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 08:51:31 -0600 (CST) From: Brad Noble Message-Id: <199703281451.IAA01628@shiva.ee.siue.edu> To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpc.lockd Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis >Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:59:03 -0300 (EST) >Subject: rpc.lockd > >Hi, > > I want to use a FreeBSD box to serve NFS to some Solaris machines, >but I'm having problems with, I think, the absence of a rpc.lockd. > > Is there a (alpha) implementation of it somewhere ? Is it possible >to solve this problem with another approach ? When I upgraded from 2.1.6 to 2.2 I encountered the rpc.lockd problem when Solaris tried to lock ~/.Maillock. Since rpc.lockd on 2.2 is still too alpha to work, I got around the problem by forcing Solaris to mount FBSD as NFS v.2 instead of v.3. My entry in the auto_home looks like: bnoble -rw,bg,vers=2,intr deepthought:/usr/home/bnoble -Brad --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brad Noble bnoble@ee.siue.edu Department of Electrical Engineering http://www.ee.siue.edu/~bnoble Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville 618-692-2524