Mounting Nfs Share

[aliking]

I'm keeping this separate from the Windows share discussion since I'm expecting different audiences.

When I try to mount a local NFS share, I'm getting this rather unhelpful error:

mount.nfs internal error

I know my /etc/exports is good on the server, because I'm mounting these shares on another computer. Has anyone succeeded in mounting an NFS share?

tia a

 

[Murff]

Could you tell us how you are trying to mount the nfs share?

 

[aliking]

sudo mount <serverIdefinedInHosts>:/<sharedFolder> home/me/sharefolder

...don't know if I've made that less intelligable by removing the specific details...

 

[Nation.A.List]

sudo mount <serverIdefinedInHosts>:/<sharedFolder> home/me/sharefolder

...don't know if I've made that less intelligable by removing the specific details...

It did for me.

 

[aliking]

fair enough.

sudo mount ubermyth:/myth /home/ali/myth

actually originally I was just doing:

sudo mount -a

since I have an entry in /etc/fstab, but I get the same results on the above.

basically I can connect into this share on another computer, and I just copied the relevant bits from /etc/hosts and /etc/fstab onto the Pandora, but it gives that useless error message.

I'm mostly curious if anyone else has sucessfully done this - meaning I'm doing something wrong. Or if noone has done it - meaning there's something more fundamental wrong. Anyone? Surely not everyone is only connecting to samba shares?

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