OSX/LINUX NFS and Automount problems.

[ggw]

Just wanting to know if anyone else has had simular issues, or knows about them..

Our file servers are Linux based (AS3).
The clients are OSX.
NIS is used for maps.

The OSX clients pick up the auto.mount map and create the NFS mounts/links. If a NFS server name moves from one machine to another (due to cluster changes, or even just a DNS update) the mac will fail to mount the new machines exports (with the 'old' name). This holds true after many reboots. I have tried various things like removing the contents of the cache dirs under System and Library.

example:
[mac-shake2:~] greg% cd /n/thor1
tcsh: /n/thor1: Unknown error: 2147483647.
[mac-shake2:~] greg%

[mac-shake2:~] greg% ls -ltr /n/thor1
lrwxr-xr-x 1 lroot admin 25 21 Oct 08:03 /n/thor1 -> /automount/static/n/thor1

[mac-shake2:~] greg% cd /automount/static/n/

[mac-shake2:/automount/static/n] greg% ls |grep thor1
thor1
[mac-shake2:/automount/static/n] greg% ls -ltr thor1
ls: thor1: Unknown error: 2147483647


Notice the last one, if I type ls in the dir, it lists all the remote mounts yet 'thor' is not seen. but If I type ls and grep for thor, its there! Now if I type ls -l and grep for thor, it throws an error.

any idea?


Another stumper (and I have a work around so it is not an issue, just wondering if anyone else is seeing this):

has anyone exported a QT (or even saved a QT from within QT or Shake) to a Linux NFS server? it works on every other OS I have tested, Solaris, Blue Arc FS, FreeBSD and IRIX. Only fails on Linux, and only since 10.5.3.

have a great day,
greg