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From: liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen-Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Problem with nfs & microexplorers
Keywords: Networks
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Date: 7 Apr 89 09:27:14 GMT
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We have an ethernet with grian, a Sun 3/60 running 4.0.1, and ubhal, a
MicroExplorer, connected via ethernet.  We're trying to mount ubhal's file
system on grian using a command something like:

	mount -t nfs ubhal:arkady2 /net/ubhal

The disk on ubhal is arkady2 and you reference directories on ubhal as
"ubhal:arkady2:foo".  In other words there are two problems.  One is that
":" is used as a separator between directories in the path name (as well
as hosts).  The second is that you don't start an absolute pathname with a
":" like you start one with a "/" on unix.

When I do the above mount, I get the error message:

	mount: ubhal:arkady2 server not responding: RPC: Server can't
		decode arguments

I'm not even sure what that means -- is it grian or ubhal that can't
decode the arguments?  I've tried a number of varitions including
"mount -v -t nfs -o timeo=30 ubhal:/arkady2 /net/ubhal" which returned
"mount: ubhal:/arkady2 on /net/ubhal: No such device" which isn't too
surprising.  Everything else I've tried, including putting :'s in with
\'s, etc, returned the error message above.  Has anyone mounted
microexplorer file systems? How?  What does your /etc/fstab look like???

Thanks for any help!

		- Liz Allen-Mitchell	liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us
					ames!elroy!grian!liz