From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 23 18: 3:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB13F37B423 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:03:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16TZEZ-000EEq-00 for Questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 02:03:23 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.intra, from userid 500) id F1230118B; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 03:03:21 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 03:03:21 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NFS Mounting Trouble Message-ID: <20020124020321.GA1131@raggedclown.net> References: <00e701c1a479$ef52e5b0$0301a8c0@uminafamily.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00e701c1a479$ef52e5b0$0301a8c0@uminafamily.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 08:53:33PM -0500, Christopher J. Umina wrote: > Hi, > > I'm dealing with two servers in a LAN and they're both running FreeBSD 4.1. One server is named ns, the other 209-6-191-48. I can mount drives that are on ns to 209-6-191-48, but try and reverse the process and I get this error: > > ns# mount 209-6-191-48:/cdrom /FritzCDROM/ > nfs: bad net address 209-6-191-48 > > Any suggestions? > NOTE: The name of 209-6-191-48 must stay the same. Here is a shot in the dark. It sees the number 209, for some reason it assumes this is an IP address, tries to use it as one, gets error returned that is an invalidly fornatted address. Just a thought. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message