name resolving error

[Tim Frost]

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 08:49 +0530, G Rajesh wrote:
> Hello,
> I have two systems running on Ubuntu 5.10 - one P4 and another amd64. I
> decided to connect them. 
> 
> 1. I edited /etc/fstab by adding: 
> //192.168.1.20:/home /net nfs rw 0 0 in the client system and 
Try removing the leading "//".  The sysntax is "<host>:<path>", and
there are no "/" characters in a host name or IP address.

Since you have hosts file entries for both hosts, you could write:
secondary:/home /net nfs rw 0 0




> 2. edited /etc/exports of the server as:
> /home 192.168.1.10(rw,async)
> 3. Earlier I have assigned static ip addresses for the eth card through
> sytem>administration>networking as 
> 192.168.1.20 for server
> 192.168.1.10 for client
> 4. I have added these ipaddresses along with host & domain names
> in /etc/hosts.
> 192.168.1.10 primary primary.grajesh.in
> 192.168.1.20 secondary secondary.grajesh.in
> 
> But, while booting (or when trying to mount nfs later), I get a message
> as:
> "mount: can't get address for //192.168.1.20"
> Where do I go wrong? Please help. Thanks in advance.
> Regards,
> Rajesh


Tim