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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!198.53.145.3!news.interlog.com!gold.interlog.com!ean From: Ean Kingston <ean@gold.interlog.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mounting NFS file systems. Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 23:16:24 -0400 Organization: InterLog Internet Services Lines: 35 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970524231309.9698A-100000@gold.interlog.com> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970521213458.7218A-100000@gold.interlog.com> <5m39s4$9dq@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: gold.interlog.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5m39s4$9dq@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41567 On 23 May 1997, Gerhard Mehldau wrote: > Ean Kingston (ean@gold.interlog.com) wrote: (entry in fstab file:) > > : <host>:/home.1 /h1 nfs rw 1 2 > > : any ideas what is wrong or more likely what I have missed? > > I've had the same problem recently. It turned out that I had > configured the resolver (/etc/resolv.conf) to use the name > server on this same host for name lookups. At boot time, the > NFS-mount is attempted before the name server is running. > > So, there are two ways to resolve the problem (pun intended); > > 1) use another name server that is available at boot time, or > 2) move the NFS-mount to a later place in the startup process > (I put it in /etc/rc.local). > Gerhard Mehldau http://www.photogrammetrie.de > Photogrammetrie GmbH mailto:mehldau@photogrammetrie.de > Anzinger Str. 5 phone: +49 (89) 43 69 2-1 64 > 81671 Munich, Germany fax: +49 (89) 43 69 2-1 00 yep, that was part of it. I'm not using a name server (just the /etc/hosts file) because my internal network is only four machines. It turns out that I also had the last two items in the entry to the fstab file wrong, they are both supposed to be 0 (zero) and with those two fixes everything is automatic. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ean Kingston (email: ean@interlog.com) http://www.interlog.com/~ean/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-