AIX - PS/2 1.2: DOS Merge & NFS

[Zvika Bar-Deroma]

Hi net,
I'm reposting a message I sent to the (BITNET) AIX-L list, as all I got
from there were reactions similar to: "I'm having the same problem - let
me know if you solve it" (noone from the IBM ppl. on the list reacted..).
One answer did mention an APAR for that: IX09598. Any idea when a PTF is
expected ? Any ideas how to circumvent the situation (no - I can't help
the fact that all our users' disk allocations are on the RT).

So - to the repost:

>    3. That seems to be the toughest one. It concerns DOS-Merge. I'm trying to
>       copy a file, while under DOS-Merge to a remote disk, mounted via nfs.
>       If the "target" disk, is on a second PS-2, the DOS copy operation
>       succeeds. If, however, I try to copy to a RT, I get the following
>       messages:
>       File creation error
>            0 File(s) copied
>       a ls -l reveals a zero length file...
>
>       The same failure also happends when I try to copy to a SUN system (as
>       I don't manage the latter, I can't "play around" with it, so I'll
>       concentrate on the RT).
>       Both filesystems (on the neighbor PS2 and on the RT) are mounted with
>       the same parameters (rw,soft), and there's no problem writing on the
>       RT filesystem in AIX.
>       My SE assumed that the reason was that DOS-Merge accesses the disk
>       with superuser authority, which nfs, by default, disbales. Changing
>       that (changing "nobody" to 0, via adb) did not help (it DID help for
>       other commands, like adduser, which does a chown, and was prevented
>       from doing that before the change was introduced).

I'd appreciate any help,

Zvika Bar-Deroma                                  Phone: 972-4-292706
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering,                 Fax  : 972-4-231848
Technion
Haifa 32000
Israel

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