Re: [9fans] Configuring NFS

[Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:34 PM, John Floren<slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to use the 9p mounting available in Linux, but it doesn't
> seem to work in this case.
> I try "mount -t 9p glenda /mnt" (glenda is my cpu/file server) and get:
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on glenda,
>       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>       (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
>       need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
>       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>       dmesg | tail  or so
>
> If I do "mount -t 9p 192.168.18.180 /mnt", using the file server IP, I just get
> mount: permission denied
> But dmesg shows "[88617.144804] p9_errstr2errno: server reported
> unknown error cannot attach as none before authentication", ONLY when
> I use the IP address--nothing appears when I use the /etc/hosts alias
> "glenda".
>
> What am I missing?
>

The Linux mount tool doesn't do DNS translation (except in the case of
NFS).  Other file systems have to rely on mount helpers which have to
be appropriately named.  So invocation as the IP address is the only
correct invocation in this case -- but you'll need to auth (or setup
the file server to export without authentication).

    -eric