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From: dschieb@muse.cv.nrao.edu (Darrell Schiebel)
Subject: Re: ppp so close, yet so far
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 01:08:07 GMT

In article <DSCHIEB.92Oct7125436@muse.cv.nrao.edu> dschieb@muse.cv.nrao.edu (Darrell Schiebel) writes:

	[...]
	   I've been logging in through a 'annex' terminal server, and running
	   ppp on the remote machine from within a Bourne shell. Several
	   packets go back and forth before I get the above output. So I wouldn't
	   think it would be control/binary characters being caught by the
	   annex or the shell, but it could be.

    I've found the problem. It turned out that the annex was indeed
    catching the its attention character.

						thanks,
						Darrell Schiebel
From: geoff@tyger.Eng.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Latest pcnfsd (Was: Re: PC-NFS : yp_match failed)
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:38:48 GMT
Organization: SunSelect
NNTP-Posting-Host: tyger.east.sun.com

In response to the recent rash of postings....

I have just uploaded the latest pcnfsd source kit to the archive sites.
The file is 'pcnfsd.92.10.12.tar.Z', and you can FTP it from
bcm.tmc.edu, ftpserver.massey.ac.nz and src.doc.ic.ac.uk. Apart from
minor bug fixes, you'll notice a slight change in the makefile,
intended to make it easier to build for multiple architectures. As
always, please let me know of any bugs or deficiencies. SVR3 diffs are
particularly welcome.

Geoff
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Xref: sparky comp.protocols.nfs:2526 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:5691 comp.sys.mips:982
From: markwi@eram.esi.COM.AU (Mark Wilton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.sys.mips
Subject: pcnfsd & lockd for MIPS
Summary: Looking for source code & build info for pcnfsd vers 2
Keywords: pcnfs, MIPS
Date: 13 Oct 92 04:47:53 GMT
Followup-To: comp.protocols.nfs
Organization: Pacific ESI, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

I am looking for the latest MIPS version of pcnfsd and lockd in the hope
that they may resolve some of the problems I am encountering.
The system I am using is a M120 file server running RISC/OS (UMIPS) 4.52 
with about 15 IBM compatible PCs (running mostly DOS 5.0) connected through 
PC/NFS 4.0.

The pcnfsd I am currently using (supplied with MIPS) is pcnfsd protocol
version 1.  I have not been successful in building a pcnfsd protocol version 2,
which is introduced in PC/NFS 4.0, although I have not spent a lot
of time on it yet.  I had no problems building pcnfsd version 2 on a Sun.

Could someone assist with the details regarding building pcnfsd (& lockd)
properly on the MIPS.  Is there a different source other than that supplied
on the PC/NFS disks?  What libraries are required?

Any advice or pointers would be very welcome.

Mark Wilton
Ph: +61 2 9063377
Fx: +61 2 9063468
From: bodapati@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Ramesh Bodapati)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:31:33 GMT
Subject: Re: PC-NFS problem with HP-UX
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs


>>A colleauge just reported me a problem he has with PC-NFS and HP-UX.
>>PC-NFS's "net use" seems to fail when the user logging into the PC-NFS 
>>server, is member of 8 or more groups. There is no problem, if the
>>user is member of 7 or less groups.
>>The same pcnfsd (recompiled ;-), on Sun's does not have this
>>behaviour. Loging in of users with more than 8 groups is no problem
>>here..
>>Does anybody know of this problem?
  NFS on hp-ux rejects requests when the caller belongs to more than 8 groups.
  This has been changed in release 9.0 - the new limit will be 16 groups.
 
  As a workaround you might want to use a hp-ux machine as the 
  PC authentication server. This way the PC will not get the other groups
  and thus cannot generate NFS requests with those groups.
  Warning: hp-ux has pcnfsd 1.0 not 2.0


>>HP-UX 8.0, PC-NFS 4.1, SunOS4.1.1
  HP-UX 9.0 will fix your problem.



Ramesh Bodapati
Hewlett Packard - Information Netwroks Division 
bodapati@cup.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "Buddy can you spare a clue?" Ranum)
Subject: Re: Redundant NFS available under Solaris 2.x/SunOS 5.x?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:55:48 GMT

>I've heard speculation from several different directions that SunOS 5.x
>will offer the ability for an NFS client to mount more than one server
>for the same directory hierarchy [...]

	Post about it here - we'd all like to know. ;)

	That sounds like "a trick" as recovery can get tricky in that
kind of configuration, unless the server disk is readonly.

mjr.
-- 
	It is important to focus on writing software that is "adequate."
Having one's software be "good" or even "excellent" is over-rated. If
"good" were necessary or even important, DOS would not be the de facto
standard operating system.                          -notebooks of a heretic
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: mahesh@amnese.eng.uab.edu (B.G. Mahesh)
Subject: PC-NFS : yp_match failed
Originator: mahesh@amnese.eng.uab.edu
Reply-To: mahesh@evb.com
Organization: SETT, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:27:46 GMT


I have installed PC-NFS 4.0 on our 486. On our sun I see
the following message very often,

Oct  9 16:32:44 gadget pcnfsd[134]: rpc.pcnfsd: yp_match failed

What could cause such an error to occur? I don't have a
/etc/pcnfsd.conf file. Is it because of that?

Please respond by email only because I don't have direct
access to this group.

thanks
-- 
B.G. MAHESH                           | Email : mahesh@evb.com
Software Engineer                     |         
SETT Inc. (Affiliated to EVB Software Engineering, Inc.)
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: blu@uunet.uu.net!mercomp (Brian Utterback)
Subject: Weird Crashes with PC-NFS, Win 3.1 and Telnet
Organization: Mercury Computer Systems
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:45:46 GMT


I have a user here that is using PC-NFS 4.0a, Telnet and Windows 3.1.
He has never been able to use all three together in Windows enhanced
mode, but until recently he was able to use Windows in standard mode.

However, recently he started having problems when exiting telnet to 
go back to Windows.  He would be thrown back to the DOS prompt with the
following message:

Standard Mode: Bad fault in MS-DOS extender.
Fault= 000d  Stack Dump= 0000 0000 0070
Raw Fault Frame: ec=0000 ip=2597 cs=05e7 fl=3202 sp=1ca6 ss=02df

He started noticing the problems after installing Borland C++, but it
does not have to be running to have the problem; could just be a
coincidence.

So, I would apprciate any help with this problem or how to use PC-NFS
with Windows 3.1 enhanced mode.

Thanks.

Brian Utterback   blu@mc.com
Network Manager
Mercury Computer
Lowell, MA 01854
-- 
Brian Utterback   blu@mc.com
Network Manager
Mercury Computer
Lowell, MA 01854
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: dwight@hyphen.com (Dwight Ernest)
Subject: Redundant NFS available under Solaris 2.x/SunOS 5.x?
Summary: Is it going to be available as a standard NFS feature?
Organization: Hyphen, Inc., Wilmington, MA 01887 USA / +1 508 988-0880
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:27:55 GMT

I've heard speculation from several different directions that SunOS 5.x
will offer the ability for an NFS client to mount more than one server
for the same directory hierarchy, with the client's ability
transparently to survive the loss of any number of these redundant
servers except for one.

Is this true?  Can anyone point me to an authoritative source of info?

-- 
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  Hyphen, Inc. / 187 Ballardvale St. / Wilmington, MA 01887 / +1 508 988 0880
  dae@world.std.com		dwight@hyphen.com
From: cca20@keele.ac.uk (J. Atherton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Clarkson Packet drivers ?
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:47:31 GMT
Organization: University of Keele, England
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


Greetings,

	I have been unsuccessfully trying to run a Clarkson WD8003
packet driver on my PC with PCNFS v4.0. The original WD driver is in
config.sys and the Clarkson driver in autoexec.bat. PC-NFS won't install
correctly at boot up now. The message I get is :-

NFS 000F PC-NFS not installed or disabled.

Does the Clarkson driver conform to NDIS spec? If so that might be a way
out.

Kermit runs fine with the Clarkson driver! I'm hoping to multiplex them.

Has anyone been there?? I will be most grateful for any comments/assistance.

Thanks

	John Atherton.
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: jallen@oat2.standard.com (0000-Admin(0000))
Subject: Re: PC-NFS: yp_match failed
Organization: Standard Insurance Company - Portland Oregon
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:37:12 GMT

Recompile PC-NFSD to not use YP.  We are not using YP and that
was the message we were seeing.  Does anyone here have direct access
to the archives mentioned a few articles back?

I need the latest PCNFSD sources as well as any of the SVR3     
diffs that are out there.  These things are supposed to
be available by archie adn I only have email access to internet
via UUNET.  Can someone mail a set to me?  

It appears that we all have the same PCNFSD problems
maybe we should just make an FAQ that contains the Diffs and
some notes that we have.  

 
-- 
===============================================================================
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Network Services                               Telephone: (503) 243-6189
Standard Insurance, Portland Oregon                  FAX: (503) 321-3313
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: hschoi@sorak.kaist.ac.kr (HeongSik Choi.(Korea computer communication))
Subject: Lock problem when using PC-NFS
Keywords: lock,pcnfs
Organization: KAIST in Seoul Korea
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 02:15:59 GMT

The version of PC/TCP and IDRIVE that I use were each 2.05 p13 and 1.1 p16. 
And the NFS server is the Sun/SPARC of which version is Release  4.1.1.

I have tested that two client ,which were applications  using  MSC  6.0  on 
PC/TCP, shared the common file  of  which  structure  was  DBASE  structure 
(*.DBF file) on the NFS server.  One  client  locked  ,which  was  used  by 
locking function[locking(handle,T_LOCK,rec_size)] of MSC,the record of  the 
shared file and wait to input a key. Other  one  tried  to  lock  the  same 
record of the shared file. But this one did not wait at the  locked  record 
and continued to next statement. Also I tried to test with the version 
1.1 pl7 beta of IDRIVE but it was not working the same as above.

I want to  lock/unlock files on  NFS server in DOS application. 

Please let me know if you have a solution about above problem.

H.S.Choi
Senior Researcher
Korea Computer Communicaion,Ltd
(FAX#)+82-2-563-0457
(PHONE)+82-2-563-0456
E-MAIL: hschoi@sorak.kaist.ac.kr





Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: BOB@ysub.ysu.edu (Bob Quigley)
Subject: NFS Server code for MS-DOS or OS/2
Organization: Youngstown State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:39:06 GMT

I am looking for NFS server code to allow me to export a volume on
a CD-ROM drive attached to a PC. I need to be able to mount this
volume on a RS/6K. Is there such a beast for MS-DOS? How about OS/2 2.0?
Is there on in the public domain? (hope, wish, dream :-)) I can't afford
to buy a CD-ROM drive for the RS/6K so this is my only hope.
 
Thanks for any info.
 
Bob Quigley (bob@ysu.edu)
Youngstown State University
From: gdonl@sunrise.ssi1.com (Don Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: /etc/mtab and file lookup
Date: 10 Oct 92 08:58:19 GMT
Organization: Silicon Systems, Nevada City CA

In article <VANDER.92Oct7084445@vancouver.stars.flab.Fujitsu.co.jp> vander@flab.fujitsu.co.jp (Mike van der Velden) writes:
>The idea of the prefix table is to improve correctness, ...

Hmn.

	mount hosta:/ /hosts/hosta/rootdir
	mount hostb:/ /hosts/hostb/rootdir
	echo hosta >/hosts/hosta/rootdir/tmp/hostname
	echo hostb >/hosts/hostb/rootdir/tmp/hostname
	mv /hosts/hosta /hosts/foo
	mv /hosts/hostb /hosts/hosta
	mv /hosts/foo /hosts/hostb

What does "cat /hosts/hosta/rootdir/tmp/hostname" print if /etc/mtab
is used as a path name prefix?

What about "cd /hosts/hostb; cat rootdir/tmp/hostname"?

>... and a side
>effect should be improved performance.

In the second case, does the lookup have to to a getwd() in order to
figure out the full path name so it can find the correct prefix?
-- 
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Internet: gdonl@ssi1.com       FAX:   +1 916 478-8290   138 New Mohawk Road
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: cullhane@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Cullhane Gibbs)
Subject: WinQvtNet2.7, PCNFS4.0 & NUPOP 1.03
Reply-To: cullhane@kraken.UUCP (Cullhane Gibbs)
Organization: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 01:17:38 GMT

Greetings,

	I have been trying to get all the above coexisting on a 386 sx with
	ni5210 comms card - with little success. I am running pcnfs with
	pktd.sys with a ni5210 packet driver. Using pktmux I can get NUPOP
	& pcnfs working OK - ( by that i mean able to use each one after the
	other with no crashes) however WinQvtNet won't live very happily and
	crashes after trying to enter it for a second time. Does anyone
	already have a setup similar to this. Any advice (if you have it all
	working i'd like to see your autoexec.bat, config.sys & qvt_tcp.rc
	files) would be greatly appreciated - thanks. 

			Cully

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: ricardo@malloco.ing.puc.cl (Ricardo Schmutzer von Oldershausen)
Subject: Re: Help Needed in installing SUN RPC sources...
Organization: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 01:24:39 GMT

Just remove "static" from the index() declaration.
It worked for me but have not tested properly the generated code.

Ricardo Schmutzer
ricardo@ing.puc.cl

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: CCOF50@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Lynda Schneiderman)
Subject: PCNFSD Clone
Organization: Motorola
Date: 9 Oct 1992 16:12:42 CDT

I am trying to use TCP/IP to connect a Macintosh Client to an OS/2 serve
I have TCP/IP for OS/2 running on the server, which gives me the NFS
services.  I have NFS client software running on the Macintosh.  My
problem is that there are not any PCNFSD clones for OS/2.  I am currentl
trying to get my hands on any information out there about PCNFSD so that
I can either compile it for OS/2 or create a clone of its functionality
for OS/2.  Any information would be greatly appreciated.
From: tyen@cs.utexas.edu (Anthony Yen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: PC-NFS with Xircom Adapter
Date: 15 Oct 1992 17:51:19 -0500
Organization: Coffee R Us
NNTP-Posting-Host: ai.cs.utexas.edu


My setup is a Compaq LTE/Lite 25 (386SL/25) with 4Mb RAM, 60Mb HD
running DR DOS 6.0 and SuperStor; I'm running DR DOS in high memory
(HIDOS) and have HIMEM set, but no other non-standard TSRs or devices
are running.  The Unix box is a SPARCserver 670MP running SunOS 4.1.2,
pcnfsd v2.0.  Both are connected to the thick Ethernet network.

A "net version" indicates I'm running PC-NFS 4.0.  I think I should
have gotten 4.0a, because I just ordered this on Aug 22 (!) and got it
yesterday, but Inmac shipped me one of their RMAs, with the manuals
all marked up in pencil---grrrr.

At any rate, I've NFS-mounted my partition just dandy, but every time
I go to copy a large number of files, PC-NFS appears to get overrun.
I either get "Not ready error reading drive E:" diagnostic messages,
or "Disk full" messages.

Has anyone else encountered the same type of problem?

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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: lmy@ncn.UUCP (Lars Myraas)
Subject: PC-NFS4.0/Win3.1/Word2.0 prblem
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 08:13:40 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I have a major problem. I am using Pc-nfs agains a Targon/31 server (SNI-
unix-server). When i save files from MS-Word 2.0 at a drive 
which is mounted at the unix-server, this happens; Every time i push the save
button in Word, i get a xxxxx.tmp file in the same directory. If i push it 20
times i get 20 .tmp files. And they won't go away when i exit from Word2.0. In
autoexec.bat the set temp= points to D:\ which
is a ramdrive (512Kb). It is no problems with .tmp files if i save at my local
C: drive!? 
We are also using several Lan-manager servers, but there is no problem there
either. Only at disks which is mounted at the unix-server, with Pc-nfs 3.5 or 
4.0.

Please help...........


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From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Problems with PC-NFS 3.5 *.MSG files
Date: 15 Oct 92 09:26:15 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.


Having installed PC-NFS v3.5 some time ago I'm just getting around to
configuring my PC printer as a networked printer. 

Everything seems to be OK except the networked printer s/w (pcnfslpd, lpt)
seems to be unable to find a message file - all the messages that appear are
in a generic form such as 

  PC-NFS Print Server Message #9

rather than the correct string.  Two message files PCNFS.MSG and PRTSERV.MSG
do exist and c:\nfs is in the PATH. 

Is there a simple fix or do I have to reinstall PC-NFS from scratch?



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UTS Sys Admin,  Manchester Computing Centre,  Oxford Rd,  Manchester, M13 9PL
"Damn you, Microsoft and all your family"
From: hanson@pogo.fnal.gov (Steve Hanson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Redundant NFS available under Solaris 2.x/SunOS 5.x?
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:57:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: pogo.hanson.719251025
Organization: FERMILAB, Batavia, IL
NNTP-Posting-Host: pogo.fnal.gov

In <thurlow.719172486@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:

>In <1992Oct14.002755.2255@hyphen.com> dwight@hyphen.com (Dwight Ernest) writes:

>>I've heard speculation from several different directions that SunOS 5.x
>>will offer the ability for an NFS client to mount more than one server
>>for the same directory hierarchy, with the client's ability
>>transparently to survive the loss of any number of these redundant
>>servers except for one.

>I hear that Sun will at some point jettison the existing implementation
>of their automounter and provide equivalent functionality by means of a
>new filesystem.  If so, I'd think that mounting multiple read-only
>copies on that kind of filesystem and letting the fs-specific code make
>sure you get one of those would be functionality that would be essential,
>since the automounter does this now.  I wonder if what you heard relates
>to what I've heard?

I believe there is going to be a talk at the SUG meeting in December
on this topic.  Something like "Post 5.1 Automounter Directions".
There are a lot of planned improvements to the automounter and
this talk is apparently going to cover them.  They certainly
aren't incorporated into SunOS 5.0 and I think 5.1 is mostly
going to be devoted to fixing 5.0.  I'd guess some time
next year for the functional improvements.
-- 
Steve Hanson - FERMILAB, Batavia, Il.
hanson@pogo.fnal.gov or hanson@fnal.fnal.gov
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: wds@worldbank.org (William D. Sheppard)
Subject: New RTM for PCNFS
Reply-To: wds@worldbank.org
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:39:27 GMT


Hi,

Does anyone have the new version of RTM?

I'm looking for the following .exe files

	RTM.EXE	32325	6-08-92		4:00am
	
If you do could I borrow a copy. It seems that the
original PCNFS 4.0 release has been updated with
this file need for DVX.

Thanks in advance

Bill Sheppard
Worldbank, Washinton DC

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
From: sveini@mack.uit.no (Svein-Ivar Lillehaug)
Subject: Re: 3c509 (was Sun <=> PC Transfer Rate)
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:32:00 GMT

In article <22427@optima.cs.arizona.edu> dsiegel@optima.UUCP (Dave Siegel) writes:
>So...what is the deal with the 3c509?  I've been playing with the Etherlink III
>for the last week, and I can't get it to work worth shit.  I keep throwing
>my 8-bit 3c503 back in, going on an ftp fest, and trying different packet
>drivers, and nothing seems to do the job.
>

I got the f* card up runing a few minutes ago. What you have to do is: 

1.Find your QUIKNDIS diskette (from PC-NFS 4.0)
  Take a look at the README file.
2.Make a directory ELNKIII (or whatever you prefer) on the diskette.
3.Copy the three files: .nif, .dos and .ini from the "manufacter's"
  diskette to the ELNKIII directory.
4.Run quikndis.exe
5.Run nfsconf, ethernet&adapters: configure as NDIS.
6.Reboot your PC and you will see the sun.

The next problem is how to fool your PC to believe that the card is an
EISA adapter and not a stupid ISA adapter.

BTW, Russel Nelson said he was working on the driver for the 3c509
(which I suppose will run directly as a 3COM driver and not as a NDIS
driver). Is this driver going to work for the 3COM Etherlink-III EISA
adapter too?


Good luck with the NDIS-mess!
Svein-Ivar
From: angelini@irisa.fr (Pierre Antoine ANGELINI )
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: We still have PC-NFS4.0a problems!!
Date: 7 Oct 92 11:37:29 GMT
Organization: IRISA, Rennes (Fr)

In article <1992Oct2.152813.16658@prl.philips.nl> vharten@prl.philips.nl (harten van pr) writes:
>Hello there,
>
>
>I still have problems with PC-NFS 4.0a. Our situation is as follows.
...
>we have one or more NIS-domains. In one domain we have a SUN 630
>NIS-server (fileserver) + 4 HP720 NIS-servers (applicationservers).
>In this domain the PC's have a problem finding the NIS-server. After
>a while I get the message:
>  - Cannot find hostname by IP-address.
>When you reboot the PC, most of the time everything works fine. 
...
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>P.R. van Harten                      Philips Research Laboratories
>tel. +31 40 742209                   Prof. Holstlaan 4
>email: vharten@prl.philips.nl        5656AA Eindhoven
>				     The Netherlands

So did I. I have two SUN servers for 150 PC's, same OS, same PCNFSD
The pc's running pc-nfs 3.5 work with no problems at all.
Those running pc-nfs 4.0a show the same behaviour than your's.
The pc name is UNKNOW if you issue a NET NAME command, but rebooting the
PC solve the problem. It's quite annoying.
It's seems to be also related with the server load.
( i do have an HP 900/835 too, on this network ) Could it be the link ?

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