Re: MS NFS client and 10g ?

jamest wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We're putting together a proof of concept demo for a few different
> Oracle/NAS configurations. One of the setups is causing me allot of pain.
> It consists of a Win2k3 based NAS server and a Win2k3 Oracle server. The
> NAS box serves a NFS (not CIFS) share to the other win box that is running
> MS SFU (services for unix). With SFU I can mount the NFS share and try any
> of a million different NFS uid to NTFS owner mappings successfully. But
> when I run DBCA to build a database it craps out. I apologize for not
> having the specific error handy right now ( I'm at home) but it is a file
> creation error ORA-yatayata unable to open file
>
> We've explored allot of tests with Win file permissions being opened up and
> NFS creation being opened up - we always have the same failure. We have
> even served the NFS diskspace from a unix box - still the same failure.
> This has lead me to suspect that DBCA and SFU/Client NFS don't play well
> together.
>
> My question is: Has anyone ever used Microsofts SFU NFS client to mount an
> NFS share and proceeded to successfully build a 10g database on the nfs
> share?
>
> Anyone..... Anyone .....?
>
> Thanks in advance for any info, leads, war stories, insults, death
> threats...
>
>
> James
>
> jamesSPAMLESS_at_earthlink.com

Microsoft's? That pretty much sums up my impression. Contact NetApp. Microsoft seems to still have a hard time figuring out there is a version of Oracle more recent than 7.3.4.

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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