How To Get NFS Working on Puppy Tahr

[jm03]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to get NFS working on Puppy Tahr.

I have a Microserver running Ubuntu which is setup to export NFS shares over the network.

I know that in Ubuntu, you must install the "nfs-common" package to be able to use NFS.

I've tried to do the same in Puppy, but I still cannot get NFS working.

It keeps saying something about needing "statd" to work properly - which I installed using the Package Manager, and NFS still doesn't work.

Do any of you have any tips for me as to how to get NFS working in Puppy?

Kind Regards,

John

[jm03]

I have come up with a temporary workaround to using NFS...

I am now using SAMBA to access files on my Microserver.

But, the implementation of SAMBA GUI tools on Puppy Linux is very clumsy.

The tool requires me to remember the SAMBA share's name, and input the IP address and the share's name each time I want to connect via SAMBA.

But, I would still like to be able to use NFS instead of SAMBA, so if any of you have any ideas how I can go about getting NFS working, please feel free to share that information with me.

[jm03]

This is what happens when I try to connect using NFS:

root# ./NFS_mount_NFS_shares.sh
mount-FULL: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 10.1.1.8:/media/johnm/WD_GREEN_2TB,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)

And, this is the command in the NFS_mount_NFS_shares.sh script:

mount-FULL -t nfs -o v3 10.1.1.8:/media/johnm/WD_GREEN_2TB /media/johnm/MICROSERVER_WD_GREEN_2TB/

Any ideas?

[jm03]

Anyone got any suggestions on this?

I'm really stuck on this one.

Samba file sharing is doing me fine for now, but I'd much rather be using NFS.

[dogFellow]

try first doing a "check" on the partition using gparted. needs to be unmounted.
not saying it will help but it may and it wont do any harm

[taersh]

mount-FULL: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 10.1.1.8:/media/johnm/WD_GREEN_2TB

I'm not sure, but wrong fs type and bad superblock seems to be there's a problem on the hard drive...

[jm03]

Can't be, because I can mount these NFS shares from my Ubuntu laptop just fine.

It's gotta be something else...

[bigpup]

This is old stuff, but may help you.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=45090

[jm03]

This is old stuff, but may help you.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=45090

Thanks for that, bigpup.

[simonss22]

This is old stuff, but may help you. And here you will find research paper example
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=45090

Thanks for that, bigpup.

Did you manage to make it work in the end?