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From: Netscape User at Kerr <Mailer@Kerr.orst.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: NFS Mount with Novell - hacking?
Date: 22 Sep 1995 19:17:12 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services - Oregon State University
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There I was. Happily, doing all this web-work through a NFS mounted directory on
my BSDI machine when the next day there were all these error messages on my
console. One of the last, that arises from the 

     mount -t nfs -v -o soft, intr hobbes:/gopher_archives /gopher-nfs

command in the rc.local file is: "Mount: Can't get net id from host"

The gopher/web archives are loaded onto the Novell server, hobbes, through
the NFS mount. However, now, when I do a df to show mounted devices, Gopher_archives
is missing from the listing.

Trying to access the gopher-nfs directory in unix just gives me a "permission 
denied".

Now, I don't know alot about NFS. I just inherited this system. From reading the
man pages it seems like a etc/exports file and /etc/fstab  file are important
elements in this system. Well, my fstab file doesn't list any information about
gopher_archives file system and I don't have a etc/exports file. I don't know 
whether they were there before these problems.

Is an entry in fstab and "existing" exports file required? If so, Somebody was 
playing with my system. Hope you can help.

John Matylonek
matyonj@ccmail.orst.edu