PCNFS can't find YP server
2007-12-25 8:22:00
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Subject: PCNFS can't find YP server
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 10:47:52 -0400
From: Tommy Reingold <tommy>
The PC's on my net run PCNFS version 3.0.1. My YP master and slave
servers run SunOS 4.1.3 and are sparc 10's. Since I replaced my 3/180
with a sparc 10, the PC's can't find a YP server any more. They just
hang when looking for one. Any clues?
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"Andrew Luebker" <aahvdl@eye.psych.umn.edu>
Jeff Wolfe <wolfe@essc.psu.edu>
bert@penril.com (Bert Robbins)
heiser@tdwr.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser)
ulysses!shankar
root@rjrt.COM (0000-Admin(0000))
"Susan Thielen" <thielen@irus.rri.uwo.ca>
manuel@efi.com (Manuel Morales)
pjw@sma.usna.navy.MIL (Peter J. Welcher -- math FACULTY <pjw@sma.usna.navy.MIL>)
Here are some reasonable suggestions that were wrong:
Make sure I'm running rarpd on the YP servers.
Make sure all the YP servers are running rpc.pcnfsd. In my case, they
are.
Make sure the map "ypservers" exists and contains the list of the YP
servers. It does, and it does.
Peter Welcher hit the nail on the head. Here is his quote:
Put 'return 0' at the end of the int functions in pcnfsd.c on
the Sun and recompile. (SPARC compiler does NOT automatically
do this for you the way Sun-3 did). (And get a newer PCNFS,
like 5, since it fixes many other bugs and works well with MS
Windows).
This makes sense, because my trouble began when I removed the Sun 3 as
a YP server.
I recompiled rpc.pcnfsd with "return 0" in all integer functions that
don't have explicit return statements. I installed the change, and the
PC's were ecstatic. Well, the users were; I don't know much about the
emotions of PC's.
I know I "should" upgrade my version of PCNFS but this modification did
fix *this* problem.
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