SCO NFS configuration question

[piperent]

SCO 5.0.5 Enterprise
Windows XP and Windows 2000 running Xlink NFS-lite (NFS client) software.

The client application on Windows is licensed for 8 users.

SCO is licensed for 30 users.

When I connect more than six (6) stations to the SCO server, that is to say I have mounted the SCO shared drive on 7 stations, I receive an 'Access Denied' when I attempt to read or write to that drive from the 7th station. Is there some default parameter that SCO NFS applies which would prevent more than 5 or 6 stations from mounting an exported filesystem? Seems like a read somewhere that 'by default, SCO's NFS limits the number of NFS Shares' to some number. But I can't remember where I read this or what the number was. At any rate, I am no NFS wiz and would appreciate anyone who would like to advance a possible cause and/or solution.

Thanks
Joel

 

[stanhubble]

it is limited by the number of server processes started by the nfsd -u # -t # (4 and 16 for 5.0.5) in /etc/rc2.d/S89nfs

 

[piperent]

Thanks, I appreciate the quick response.

I have noticed on my SCO machines that there are only 5 'nfsd' daemons running, is this the result of the -u parameter or is there something else that controls how many of these are started? Should I have one 'nfsd' per user for each user who mounts the shared directory, and if so, where in the world do you set that parameter value?

Thanks again.

 

[stanhubble]

um in /etc/rc2.d/S89nfs

 

[piperent]

Thanks Stan ........... that seems to have done the trick. I set it to 6 and it started 7 'nfsd' processes.