Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:48:32AM +1000, Owen Townend wrote: > On 22/04/2008, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Googling a little finds others that have had the same issue and resolved > it inexplicably by reinstalling nfs-common. I'll throw out this suggestion since I've sometimes got ca

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Pete Kay shared this with us all: >--} Reading state information... Done >--} nfs-common is already the newest version. >--} 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Does the <2 not upgraded> have anything to offer? Maybe there is something that requires

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
On 22/04/2008, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Owen: > > Here is the output of running the 4 commands: > > ser:# showmount -e 192.168.1.101 > Export list for 192.168.1.101: > /var/fs 127.0.0.1,192.168.1.104 > Hey, I'm running short on ideas here. Anyone else care to weigh in? Is any

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Pete Kay
Hi Owen: Here is the output of running the 4 commands: ser:# showmount -e 192.168.1.101 Export list for 192.168.1.101: /var/fs 127.0.0.1,192.168.1.104 ser:# mount -v 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs mount: no type was given - I'll assume nfs because of the colon mount: wrong fs type, bad option, ba

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
On 21/04/2008, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:06:38PM +1000, Owen Townend < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > Do you have the nfs-common package installed? > > > I thought it was nfs-client you needed to connect to an NFS server? > > Daniel

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:06:38PM +1000, Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Do you have the nfs-common package installed? I thought it was nfs-client you needed to connect to an NFS server? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Pete Kay
Hi Owen, Thank you so much for your guidance. Based on your instruction, I found out the following: 1. /sbin/mount.nfs does not exist in the client machine and server machine 2. I can mount locally on the server machine with no problem. What could have gone wrong? Thanks, Pete On Mon, Apr 21,

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
On 21/04/2008, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Here is the result for the two commands: > > ser:# dmesg |tail > EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal > loop: loaded (max 8 devices) > device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NET: Registered protoc

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Pete Kay
Hi, Here is the result for the two commands: ser:# dmesg |tail EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal loop: loaded (max 8 devices) device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling d

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
On 21/04/2008, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > If I execute the command, I still get error: > > ser:# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs/fs > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.101:/var/fs, >missing codepage or helper program, or other err

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Pete Kay
Hi, If I execute the command, I still get error: ser:# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs/fs mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.101:/var/fs, missing codepage or helper program, or other error (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
[snip On 21/04/2008, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ser:# mount 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.1.101:/var/fs, >missing codepage or helper program, or other error >(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you mig