NFS Mount question - What are the required options in /etc/fstab

[Jay Ridgley]

On 09/17/2012 07:00 AM, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:51:50 +0200
> From: Sean Crosby<richardnixonshead at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: NFS Mount question - What are the required options in
> 	/etc/fstb?
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> Hi Jay,
>
> Make sure that the nfs-common package is installed on the failing machine
>
> Sean
>
Sean,

Yes it is there (1.12.5-3ubuntu3)

Regards,
Jay

> On 17 September 2012 13:40, Jay Ridgley<jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>  wrote:
>
>> >Folks,
>> >
>> >I have an interesting question: Why does one work and the other does NOT?
>> >The only difference (I know of) between the two systems is ursa was an
>> >upgrade from 10.04.4LTS to 12.04.1LTS and kodiak is a fresh install. Both
>> >are up to date. Is kodiak missing a software package, if so which one?
>> >
>> >WORKS -->
>> >
>> >cdjsys at ursa:/$ cat /etc/fstab |grep nfs
>> >#polar:/archive /archive nfs rw,noauto 0 0
>> >koala:/nfs/cdjsys /big_archive  nfs     rw,noauto,nolock        0 0
>> >cdjsys at ursa:/$ sudo mount /big_archive
>> >[sudo] password for cdjsys:
>> >cdjsys at ursa:/$ df |grep koala
>> >koala:/nfs/cdjsys 973391744 13308704 960083040   2% /big_archive
>> >cdjsys at ursa:/$ uname -a
>> >Linux ursa 3.2.0-30-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 24 16:54:40 UTC 2012
>> >i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>> >cdjsys at ursa:/$
>> >
>> >and
>> >
>> >FAILS -->
>> >
>> >cdjsys at kodiak:~$ cat /etc/fstab |grep nfs
>> ># entry for nfs:cdjsys on koala
>> >koala:/nfs/cdjsys /big_archive  nfs     rw,noauto,nolock        0 0
>> >cdjsys at kodiak:~$ sudo mount /big_archive
>> >[sudo] password for cdjsys:
>> >mount.nfs: requested NFS version or transport protocol is not supported
>> >cdjsys at kodiak:~$ uname -a
>> >Linux kodiak 3.2.0-30-generic-pae #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 24 17:14:09 UTC
>> >2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>> >cdjsys at kodiak:~$
>> >
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Jay


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