New NFS Share Problems

[apeasecpc]

We use NFS to mount a Windows 2003 server share onto our SCO UNIX 3.2v5.0.6 server so staff can export text files from a database on the SCO server to a network drive.

Just this last week we have started seeing odd behavior where files copied to the NFS share look ok when accessed through the SCO server, but when accessed from the Windows 2003 server there are chunks of data missing in the middle of the files. The missing data is replaced with bytes having a value of 0.

There have been no changes made to the SCO server for the past several months. We recently installed patches on the Windows 2003 server, which I suspect are the cause of the problem. We have tried dismounting and re-mounting the NFS share on the SCO server, stopping and restarting the NFS service on the Windows 2003 server, and restarting both servers, but the problem still was not resolved.

Has anyone else out there experienced any problems with NFS and Windows 2003 server recently?

 

[Roadki11]

Well it’s been a real long time since i touched SCO but 5.0.6 is getting pretty long in the tooth. I have no idea what is causing your NSF issue but the windows patches is probably the culprit as you already suspect. Guess you could back the patches off, that may or may not fix your issue and it’s not a long term solution to your issue that’s for sure. Have you considered a more permanent work around like ftp the files off the SCO box to a windows box, or installing samba on the SCO box? I know samba was a little tricky to get running on SCO but once it was, it was pretty stable. The samba and related packages used to be on the Skunkware CD. Anyway, just a couple of thoughts for you since no one else is chiming in.


RoadKi11

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