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

[Basil Chupin]

On 18/09/12 02:12, PleegWat wrote:
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> On 09/17/2012 05:43 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 18/09/12 01:04, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Do us all a favor and get rid of the GMX.com webmailer.
>>>
>>> It is throwing away any and all punctuation you may have had on
>>> screen when you hit send.  The result on our screens is the
>>> unintelligible gibberish above that only the most determined will
>>> try to wade through.
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>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Gene
>> Nooooo.....you get rid of the rubbish mail client YOU are using and
>> use something intelligent like Thunderbird (and not Kmail which you
>> normally use but NOT for the above post) :-) .
>>
>> There is nothing wrong with the formatting of the post by Clinton:
>> all quite properly formatted and clearly legible.
>>
>> BC
>>
> Nope, I get the exact same thing in thunderbird. The HTML version may
> be fine but the text version is a mess.
>
> PleegWat

Sorry Gentlemen - TomH and PleegWat - but there is NO problem with that 
post when using TB. Here is what it looks like in TB (and sorry for 
requoting the whole of Clint's message), and I have been a TB user since 
the year dot:

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 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 >
 > From: Jay Ridgley
 >
 > Sent: 09/17/12 07:40 AM
 >
 > To: Ubuntu-users
 >
 > Subject: NFS Mount question - What are the required options in /etc/fstb?
 >
 >
 > 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:~$
 >
 >
 > You might try adding vers=3 to your mount options.  I have seen this 
before with the newer NFS releases.
 >
 >
 > Clint

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BC

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