Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Sun, 11 May 2008 16:39:15 +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>
>> Solaris will fall back to NFSv3 and NFSv2 if NFSv4 isn't supported.
>> If the server does have NFSv4 enabled but it's not working right, then
>> there's no fallback -- that's not what the fallback is intended for.
>
> OK, perhaps the Linux NFS server is the real problem then. I thought that
> I had disabled NFSv4 on that server but
>
> [root@newton /proc/17856]# cat status
> Name: nfsd4
>
> I never did trust Linux NFS very much but that machine is my print server
> also and the printer requires HPLIP, which will not build on Solaris.
>
The Linux NFSv4 server does *not* fall back to NFSv3 when it is not set
up to do authentication and all the trimmings of NFSv4. I can't
remember the exact sequence, but it basically sends back a failure
status rather than a "try again".

IOW - out of the box *no* NFSv4 client can connect to it, /not even it's
own/!

Cheers,
Gary B-)

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