'RPC transaction timed out' error on clients
Dr R D Gidden
rdg at theleys.cambs.sch.uk
Fri Sep 24 09:18:57 BST 1999
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 05:12:31PM +0100, I wrote:
> We are running 2.1.5 (old!!) on our school file server
> and it has suddenly started giving errors to users logging
> on from Acorns with Omniclient I with the error shown on
> the client machine as in the Subject: line. I believe
> Omniclient is a samba client (?)
Silly me! It's an NFS client ...
>
> PC's do not seem to be affected, nor do Acorns *already*
> logged on - "RPC communication failed on mount" for users
> wanting to log on afresh - I'm having to reboot the file
> server nearly as much as W95 ;-) as I have no idea which
> process on the file server is falling over - so that I
> might kill -1 <PID>. ps -aux gives a reasonable looking
> list both before and after the happening.
>
> Help gratefully received!
>
> Bob.
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