NFS problem

[Niklas Hallqvist]

	Hello NFS people!

About a month ago I posted the following article:
> 	I have a TCP/IP network with NFS on top of it.  Some of the
> nodes run Interactive 386/ix 2.0.1 (I think) who acts rather strangely
> when I try to set file attributes.  If some attributes are unspecified
> (e.g uid, gid or mode) they get changed anyway to -1.  I know this is
> mentioned in the NFS manual for 386/ix.  What I'm asking here is not
> why this happens, that I understand, but what to do about it.  Does
> someone know how to patch nfsd or nfs.o?  Have someone done a new
> version of the RP (remote procedure) which handles the set file attributes
> call?  Or maybe a RPC filter listening to the original NFS socket,
> forwarding some calls to a another port, after reconfiguring nfsd to
> listen this new port, and implementing new versions of other RPs.
> I'm interested in hints, partial or complete solutions to my problem.

I didn't get any answer and I saw no followups either.  The fact is: I'm not
the only one having this problem, there is at least one other site in
Sweden having the same difficulties (but in their case with 386/ix 2.2).
I plea, don't pass by this article if you got any ideas of what I can do.

				Thanks in advance,
				Niklas
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