[SunHELP] solaris telnet/ftp connection problems

[Adrian.Florea at alcatel.ro]

Try to remove the entry from /etc/dfs/dfstab and then restart ... it
should work.

Adrian FLOREA.

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Kumar, Niraj wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have the following system ,
>
> Machine hardware:   sun4u
> OS version:         5.8 solaris
> Processor type:     sparc
> Hardware:           SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
>
> I had created a temporary directory (/opt/temp) for NFS sharing on sun
> Solaris machine and put the share command entry in /etc/dfs/dfstab file as
> follows,
>
> share  -F nfs  -o ro    /opt/temp
>
> i shared the directory and after using the share from another machine, I
> deleted the directory but forgot to remove the share command entry from the
> /etc/dfs/dfstab file and on top of that I needed to reboot the system for
> some other reason.  After rebooting, this did something which caused the
> machine to not accept any connections. The machine respond to pings as alive
> but would not allow any telnet, ftp or x-term connections!!!!  It simply
> says connection refused!
>
> I am in a fix, how to solve this problem? I am guessing it is happening
> because at the boot time, the nfs server starts and hangs as it doesnot find
> the directory for sharing.... it doesnot time out perhaps.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated. I would hope you guys to answer very
> soon..
>
> thanks
>
> NK
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