Hi Jay,<div> </div><div>Make sure that the nfs-common package is installed on the failing machine</div><div> </div><div>Sean <div class="gmail_quote">On 17 September 2012 13:40, Jay Ridgley <<a href="mailto:jridgley2@austin.rr.com" target="_blank">jridgley2@austin.rr.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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@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@ursa:/$ sudo mount /big_archive [sudo] password for cdjsys: cdjsys@ursa:/$ df |grep koala koala:/nfs/cdjsys 973391744 13308704 960083040 2% /big_archive cdjsys@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@ursa:/$ and FAILS --> cdjsys@kodiak:~$ cat /etc/fstab |grep nfs # entry for nfs:cdjsys on koala koala:/nfs/cdjsys /big_archive nfs rw,noauto,nolock 0 0 cdjsys@kodiak:~$ sudo mount /big_archive [sudo] password for cdjsys: mount.nfs: requested NFS version or transport protocol is not supported cdjsys@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@kodiak:~$ Thanks, Jay -- Jay Ridgley <a href="mailto:jridgley2@austin.rr.com" target="_blank">jridgley2@austin.rr.com</a> Registered Linux User ID - 9115 <a href="https://linuxcounter.net/cert/9115.png" target="_blank">https://linuxcounter.net/cert/9115.png</a> Registered Ubuntu User ID - 23320 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> </div>