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From: fergus@kauri.vuw.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Problems mounting NFS drive [netbsd]
Date: 16 Nov 1993 23:35:40 GMT
Organization: Victoria University of Wellington
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Keywords: mount nfs netbsd


For the last several days I have been trying to mount an nfs partition on
a netbsd 0.9 box without any luck. When I try and mount the nfs partition
I usually get one of three things happening. One, the most common; mount
hangs the terminal session it was started from and cannot be killed, it
may respond after a while with "nfs server BLAH not responding" but still
cannot be killed. Two, "access permission denied". Three, various RPC
errors such as "RPC program not registered" etc.

I have tried the FAQ, but the solutions to nfs mounting problems given
there did not work. I have also tried various other mount options
including: rsize, wsize, soft, tcp, noconn and others.

I feel I am missing something obvious and that the solution should not be
that hard. If some kind person(s) could mail me with any problems and
their solutions they had when mounting nfs drives, no matter how trivial,
I am sure I could work out what my problem is. Also any tips as to how to
go about debugging the problem would be greatly appreciated.

Here is some more information:
- tried with both distribution and rebuilt kernel
- tried two different servers, both with nfs file systems exported to
everybody
- telnet, ftp etc work fine to both servers
- access to the servers is via a gateway
- client machine is in DNS of both servers
- using a NE1000 TP ethernet card, standard config

Thank you for any help you can give me,
Fergus.
fergus@kauri.vuw.ac.nz