dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) (02/08/91)
This is probably something stupid, but I can't find anything helpful in the manual and I think I've wasted enough of my time on it. I've just finished installing NFS (3.3 with the 3.3.1 update) on an Iris 4D/240 and a Personal Iris, to use the 4D/240 as a server for the PI. The installation went OK. I followed the instructions in the NFS User's Guide for starting NFS on a running system (i.e., I started nfsd and exportfs), and that seemed OK. I put one line in the /etc/exports file on the server: /usr cb-iris2.stanford.edu where cb-iris2 is the host name of the PI. Now, the manual says all I need to do to mount the file system on the PI is to create an empty directory (I called it /usr/mount), and do something like: mount -o soft,bg cb-iris:/usr /usr/mount where cb-iris is the server's host name. But this fails; mount says: mount: cb-iris:/usr on /usr/mount: Invalid argument mount: giving up on: /usr/mount I tried the tests in the User's Guide to remotely check if the nfs daemons were accessable, and they seem OK. On cb-iris2, "showmount -e cb-iris" says: export list for cb-iris: /usr cb-iris2.stanford.edu So, what am I missing here? -David Hinds dhinds@cb-iris.stanford.edu