Re: nfs

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

You also might try specifying the nfs version in your mount command.

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> Howdy:
> Make sure that the DNS is active on one machine or the other, and that the names are
> still set up properly... I'm assuming (should I?) that you are running  a tcp/ip based
> net...  Also:  You may want to try to issue the mount command using the command line
> option for IP address (I may be thinking about smbmount??)
> 
> HTH,
> Brant
> 
> > Under hamm, I could successfully export a file system from a i386
> > machine running hamm to a SGI running IRIX 6.5 so that the command
> > mount debian:/home /mnt
> > issued on the IRIX 6.5 machine worked giving output something like this.
> >
> > kakapo 16# mount blitzen:/home /mnt
> > mount: blitzen:/home server not responding: Program/version mismatch; low
> > version = 1, high version = 2
> > NFS version 3 mount failed, trying NFS version 2
> > mount: blitzen:/home server ok
> >
> > Now when I upgrade the i386 to slink and try the same thing on the SGI I
> > get
> >
> > akapo 19# mount lira:/home /mnt
> > mount: lira:/home server not responding: Program not registered
> > NFS version 3 mount failed, trying NFS version 2
> > mount: retrying
> >    /mnt
> > NFS version 3 mount failed, trying NFS version 2
> >
> > and it keeps on trying this for ages.
> > Does anyone know a solution to this problem?