Subject: Re: NFS troubles on NetBSD clients with RH 6.0 Linux.
To: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/16/1999 11:36:32
On Sun, 16 May 1999 11:01:01 -0700
Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com> wrote:
> Anyone here see troubles mounting NFS filesystems served from RH 6.0 on
> their NetBSD systems? I've tried from both 1.3.2 and 1.4 clients. I can
> get the filesystems to mount okay. They show up if I run the NetBSD
> 'mount' command, but not the under the 'df' command. Any attmept to
> access the filesystems or their contents results in an message stating
> "Protocol not supported". On the Linux side, I get messages like:
>
> May 16 10:26:37 voodoo kernel: svc: unknown version (3)
>
> Which I'm taking to mean that the NetBSD clients are trying to talk with
> the Linux server using NFSv3 but Linux the kernel can't handle it.
You can force NetBSD to use v2 mounts using with the -2 option to mount_nfs.
Or, like this:
mount -t nfs -o -2 server:/foo /mnt
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>