On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:48:34PM +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: > Dan Fulbright wrote: > >When I try to mount an NFS filesystem, I get this error: > > > >mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs' > > > >Here's the mount command I'm using on host2: > > > >mount host1.domain.com:/tmp /mnt > > > >On host1.domain.com, I have this in /etc/exports: > > > >/tmp host2.domain.com(ro,sync) > > > >I tried using all IP addresses instead of names, but with the same > >results. The mount(8) man page says that it includes built-in NFS support. > > > >I'm running Sarge. I'm somewhat new to Debian, but have been using Linux > >for many years, so if I need to provide more information, just let me know. > > > >Thanks in advance. > > > >--df > > > > > > Do a `grep nfs /proc/filesystems' and see what you get back. This will > let you know if currently there is nfs support. > > If nothing, try `modprobe nfs' and give it another shot. If that doesn't > work, make sure that NFS client support was actually included with your > kernel build. > > Is your kernel custom, debian built, etc?
Also, to make sure that you have all the software pieces together, run apt-get install nfs-common # on the client and apt-get install nfs-kernel-server nfs-common # on the server nfs-common is sometimes missing on the client and strange results occur. Ionut -- *************** * Ionuţ Georgescu * Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme * Noethnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden * Phone: +49 (351) 871-2209 * Fax: +49 (351) 871-1999
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