NFS question

[Stephen Burke]

Not sure what you mean by resolve the name of the server using IP gives:

# mount 192.168.0.104:/media/usbdrive /home/qfwfq/usbdrive/
mount: RPC: Remote system error - No route to host

Not sure what HTH means either

;-),
S.

kobear at sharedbrain.net wrote:
> 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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