Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Torsten Bögershausen <[email protected]> · Thu, 19 Jan 2017 07:37:45 +0100

Is anyone running vxWorks 5.5 with a Centos 7/ RHEL 7, etc. modern NFS server?

Not me.

But one observation I made is that Centos 7 uses NFS 4.
To my understanding NFS 4 does not map the numerical user/group id

"1:1", by default, but wants to translate the remote user id into a local one

in some way.

And this is a security improvement.

In short: We needed to tweak a file called /etc/idmapd.conf.
I can dig out the details later.

Can you mount Centos 7 -> Centos 7 ?

On 19/01/17 02:00, Mark Rivers wrote:

Folks,

We are mostly running VxWorks 6.9.4 now, and with that we have no problem NFS
mounting file systems on Centos 7.

However, we have a few IOCs that still need to run VxWorks 5.5.  These can
mount file systems on Centos 5 servers fine.  However, on Centos 7 we see the
following:

-          The NFS mount command from vxWorks succeeds with no error

-          showmount on the Centos 7 system shows that the vxWorks system has
mounted the file system OK

-          However, the vxWorks system cannot actually read or write any files
on the file system.

If I type the “ls” command in a valid directory I get

Cant’ open “null”.

Value=-1

The problem is not file permissions, it works fine if we are running the
identical IOC with vxWorks 6.9.4, and we have tried setting the files in that
directory to mode 755.

Is anyone running vxWorks 5.5 with a Centos 7/ RHEL 7, etc. modern NFS server?
If so, how does one get it to work?

Thanks,

Mark

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System