Re: NFS shares...

[Jason Quigley <jasonq@terra.es>]

Hi Tommi!

I put in a switch on the mount command to go to version 2. That did the trick, 
it mounts and I can see the directories from the command line (unfortunately, 
not the Finder, but that's another story :).

Many thanks,
Jason.

--On Monday, October 9, 2000 2:24 pm +0300 Tommi Komulainen 
<Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 01:11:17PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote:
> > I am trying to set up an NFS share from my Debian server to allow a test
> > system  (Mac OS X) to access it. When I try to mount from the client machine
> > I get:
> >
> > The server's syslog has:
> > Oct  9 13:07:35 cubeship kernel: svc: unknown version (3)
>
> Well, this says that the client tried to use NFSv3 while your server
> supports only NFSv2. So you have two choices, either make the client use
> NFSv2 also or update the server for NFSv3. I don't know about the
> latter, but the former can be done (well, at least on linux) with
>
>     mount -o nfsvers=2,ro 192.168.1.1:...
>
> That 'nfsvers' option will be propably different, check your Mac
> manpages or equivalent. On Solaris something the correct parameter was
> avoid_version=3, IIRC.
>
>
> --
> Tommi Komulainen                               Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi