NFS question

kobear at sharedbrain.net kobear at sharedbrain.net
Tue Aug 23 23:21:00 EDT 2005


It looks like it just cannot resolve the address for the server who's fs you are
trying to mount.  See if you can resolve the name of the server, or try
mounting by using the IP address:

mount 10.0.0.1:/home  /mnt/home

HTH,
Kyle

Quoting Stephen Burke <qfwfq at adelphia.net>:

> While I have not yet been able to completely abandon M$ around here, at
> least whatever hard drive has windows on it is also now dual-booted with
> some flavor of GNU/Linux against the inevitable time when the M$ side
> simply crashes and burns for no apparent reason (which seems to be
> happening regularly).
>
> One of the final hurdles has been to find a flavor  of linux that would
> play nicely with my usb2 external hard drive.
>
> I have found that flavor here: http://www.blagblagblag.org/
> I have mentioned BLAG here before, but that was fc1, and this is 3.
>
> It's sort of a FC3 without the hassle for those of us hammering on
> ancient hardware and unwilling to replace it while it still works.
> BLAG3000 works beautifully on it.
>
> The main job of that PII is just to share what's on the usb drive, which
> it does a pretty good job of. I have been sharing the drive with samba,
> but I would rather not, if I can help it.
>
> The Linux NFS-HOWTO (which is about all I've been able to find on the
> subject -copies availble far and wide) uses the command
>
> # mount master.foo.com:/home /mnt/home
>
> but I don't know the command for mounting in a workgroup setting without
> the .com. Trying just mount master:/media/usbdrive /home/qfwfq/usbdrive
> gives me:
>
> mount: can't get address for master
>
> I was using "mount -t smbfs //master/usbdrive /home/qfwfq/usbdrive"
> before without difficulty (except with fedora, where they apparently
> were determined to break the samba that had been working perfectly in
> RH9 -another reason to need NFS), so I am not sure what that address
> error means.
>
> Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> S.
>
>




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