[comp.unix.aux] NFS Mounting Problems

jaya@ra.src.umd.edu (Jaya Kanal) (03/15/91)

We are running AUX 2.0 (scheduled to upgrade to 2.01 soon) on a Mac II 
with 8 megs ram and a 140 meg hard disk.  One set of directories is 
mounted from a Sun workstation.  When I issue a mount command manually, 
everything works fine. We put the mount information into the
/etc/fstab file and the /etc/sysinitrc file, but the directories don't 
mount automatically.  When I try a mount -a command, nothing happens.  I 
checked and re-checked manuals - it seems that the commands are correctly 
entered !?!

Excuse my fragmented "unix talk", but I have also asked some unix people 
here about the problem, and they find it strange that the mount -a command 
is not doing anything.  We also tried to issue another mount command and 
got the message that the directory name was not
in the fstab file.  But it was there. 

Any ideas?  I am thinking that AUX is looking in the 'wrong' place, that 
there is a phantom fstab file somewhere, but I cannot find anything of the 
kind.

Thanks in advance; e-mail to jaya@ra.src.umd.edu.

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Jaya Kanal, Systems Research Center
U of MD College Park