SUMMARY: [Q]: No network locking?

From: Daniel Jones (danny@ccl.umist.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 18 1996 - 10:58:41 CST

I've had quite a few requests for summary but I had several replies which
said pretty much the same.

Here's a representative one: 

--

This comes from the Solaris 2 FAQ posted periodically on
          comp.unix.solaris
          comp.sys.sun.admin
          comp.answers
          news.answers .

3.28) What is this message: "automount: No network locking on host,
    contact administrator to install server change."?

    The other machine (an NFS server) is running 4.1.x and needs a
    patch from Sun to update its network lock daemon (lockd). If
    you don't install the patch on the server, file locking will
    not work on files mounted from "thathost". The lockd jumbo patch
    fixes a bunch of other lock manager problems, so it may be a
    Good Thing To Get; however, it may also cause the machine on
    which the patch is installed to have trouble talking to servers
    with no patch or older patches, so Be Warned.

    The lockd patches are: 100988 (4.1.3), 101817 (4.1-4.1.2)
    and 101784 (4.1.3_U1), 100518 (for Online: Disksuite).

Thanks to:

peter.allan@aeat.co.uk
mch@com.squirrel (Mark C. Henderson)
tmander@com.bellcore.classics (Trupti Mander)
Glenn.Satchell@au.com.Uniq (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)

and many others.

--
Daniel Jones,
Computer Systems Manager,
Department of Language Engineering,
UMIST,
Manchester M60 1QD.

Telephone: 0161 200 3111
Fax: 0161 200 3099
Email: danny@ccl.umist.ac.uk

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