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From: sdp4198@is2.nyu.edu (Shoel Perelman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Mounting an NFS volume FROM FreeBSD TO Linux
Date: 25 May 1996 23:56:43 GMT
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Has anybody had the problem of a Linux machine not being able to mount a 
FreeBSD exported NFS volume?  I have mountd, nfsd and portmapper running and 
there are no permissions problems because I don't get any errors about RPC or 
permissions.  The Linux machine just hangs as soon as I issue the mount like 
this:

mount freebsdbox:/blah /mnt


(It doesn't hang the machine -- it just never exits and mounts).  But 
interestingly, if I do a showmount on the freebsd box at that time, it says 
that the Linux box DID mount something off it.  Eventually, i have to just kill
the mount process on the Linux box to recover.  Any ideas would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks!

-Shoel Perelman
perelman@cscmicro.com

PS - If possible, could you e-mail me if you respond as I may not see it?