From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 21 11:42:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA07856 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:42:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from speedbump.datapark.com (ns1.datapark.com [207.102.240.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA07851 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:42:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from k2 (k2.datapark.com [207.102.240.32]) by speedbump.datapark.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA02710 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:40:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3332E3F4.2D8@datapark.com> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:39:32 -0800 From: Jeff Newton Organization: Tantalus Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with NFS and Linux References: <3332DC9E.69D2@datapark.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jeff Newton wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been having problems nfs mounting a Linux partition on my 2.1.7 > box. The mount command works fine but when I try to access the mount > point I get "Stale NFS file handle". > 10 minutes after I sent this question to the list I finally figured out. Isn't that always the way? It appears that Linux needs the reserved port number flag set. So I issed the command: mount_nfs -P server:/path /mountpoint and it worked fine. Cheers, -- Jeff Newton Network Administrator Tantalus Communications Datapark Advanced Communications (604) 664-7454 ----------------- "Keep your stick on the ice!" - Red Greene