NFS problems, mac & linux

[Tom Wilson]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 21:48, ejbr at comcast.net wrote:
> After many attempts and much swearing, finally got an NFS server running 
> on a Mac G4 Powerbook (not my machine & I don't know OSX from shinola), 
> with /Volumes/Alien shared.  I run on this Linux box:
> sudo mount 192.168.1.102:/Volumes/Alien /mnt/alien
> 
> "mount" shows OK:
>     192.168.1.102:/Volumes/Alien on /mnt/alien type nfs 
> (rw,addr=192.168.1.102)
> 
> Problem is, I can't access /mnt/alien - even as root::
>     root:/mnt/alien # ls -al
> ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
> 
> Then I notice
> edj:/mnt$ lk
> .  .  .  .
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root cdrw 1024 Aug 21 17:59 alien
> .  .  .  . 
> 
> If I umount, /mnt/alien is properly root:root.
> 
> Why's that changing to cdrw group upon mounting?  I'm assuming the problem 
> is at this Linux end someplace.  Any advice, hints, pointers? 
> Thanks.

Just a WAG here but have you tried specifying nfs at mount?

sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.1.102:/Volumes/Alien /mnt/alien

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Tom Wilson
McSwain Carpets
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