How to mount NFS Share from ISeries to Solaris???

[100mbs]

We have a new ISeries mainframe and i need to mount one of the NFS shares on the ISeries to my Solaris servers.

The Mainframe guys say that they exported the shares but i can not mount them.. It just times out after a while.

Any ideas on this???

 

[Annihilannic]

What other debugging have you tried? Can you ping the iSeries servers? Does showmount -e nfsserver return anything?

Annihilannic.

 

[100mbs]

I tried the showmount -e nfsserver and got the following:

RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Timed out

I ping the server and i tried replacing the nfsserver name with ip nad nothing.

 

[cndcadams]

100mbs;

did you start nfs.client deamon on the solaris box.

/etc/init.d/nfs.client start

Thanks

CA

 

[100mbs]

Yep I had tried before i posted but i did again just to make sure and it still wont connect to ISeries.

 

[Annihilannic]

Sounds to me like the problem is definitely at the iSeries end... either NFS services are not running properly, or they are speaking a different language to Solaris. Are the IBM folks able to mount those NFS shares between iSeries boxes to prove they're working?

Annihilannic.

 

[GunnarD]

3 things to check:

1) is rpc running on the IBM mainframe?

2) is there a firewall on the IBM mainfram?

3) What is the output of: rpcinfo -p "IBM mainframe

 

[100mbs]

rpc is running on the mainframe.

The firewall between the SUN and ISeries has been opened up.

Here is the output of the rpcinfo command.

rpcinfo -p ibas4019
program vers proto port service
100000 3 udp 111 rpcbind
100000 2 udp 111 rpcbind
100000 3 tcp 111 rpcbind
100000 2 tcp 111 rpcbind
100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
100003 3 udp 2049 nfs
100005 1 udp 5178 mountd
100005 3 udp 5179 mountd
100024 1 udp 5182 status
100024 1 tcp 54303 status
100021 1 udp 5185 nlockmgr
100021 1 tcp 37815 nlockmgr
100021 3 udp 5187 nlockmgr
100021 3 tcp 44967 nlockmgr
100021 4 udp 5189 nlockmgr
100021 4 tcp 46327 nlockmgr
100021 2 udp 5186 nlockmgr
100021 2 tcp 5959 nlockmgr
100020 3 tcp 26039 llockmgr
100020 3 udp 5188 llockmgr