From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 20:45:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602C016A41F for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:45:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cburchell@muttart.org) Received: from mx.muttart.org (mx.muttart.org [66.18.201.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17DBC43D45 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:45:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cburchell@muttart.org) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:45:55 -0600 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: stale NFS file handle thread-index: AcXQMmRuajgCt2JMTYuZV2LIS1sgaAABDHbQ From: "Chris Burchell" To: Subject: stale NFS file handle X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:45:56 -0000 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE I'm trying to connect to a Cygwin-based NFS server running on a remote Windows server machine. When I run (as root): mkdir /some/dir mount -t nfs foo.bar:/pub /some/dir I do not get an error. But when I cd to /some/dir I get an error message that reads: /some/dir: Stale NFS file handle. Any suggestions on how to resolve this? I have not been able to find anything of help in the archives, and I'm not very familiar with the NFS client options despite my RTFM of the manpage mount(8) Chris