Early this morning I left Gothenburg and after a detour via Amsterdam I was back in Wollishofen around lunch time.
This weekend I have, among other things, upgraded one of the servers to Debian Squeeze (6.0). In the latest stable release the system defaults to NFS4 instead of NFS3. This had an impact on my setup where NFS and autofs are used to automatically mount the user directories from the file server running OpenSolaris (which speaks NFS in version 2, 3 and 4). The solution is said (in the Ubuntu NFS4 howto) to be to configure the same mapid domain on both machines but for me it appeared not to help.
The solution – stick to NFS3 đ If you are in the same situation you can achieve this my by adding the options “fstype=nfs,vers=3” to your autofs configuration. This is an example from my autofs configuration of the home directories:
* -fstype=nfs,vers=3,rw mrq:/export/home/&