Subject: Re: NFS: Operation not supported by device
To: admin <brm@cymose.closequarters.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/12/2001 21:58:34
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:38:00PM -0500, admin wrote:
> mount_nfs reports "Operation not supported by device" when mounting an exported
> directory located on a server on the LAN.
> 
> Everything checks out on the server. showmount -e executed from my laptop
> indicates that the exported direcory is indeed avaliable to Everyone. RPC
> seems to be in full effect, as I can get this info over the network.
> 
> The server has mountd, rpcbind, and nfsd's running. NFS support is compiled into
> both the server and client kernels. Both are running NetBSD 1.5.2.
> 
> About the only thing I can think of is that there needs to be some NFS
> component running on the client.

Can you try to ktrace your mount, to see exactly which syscall returned
this error ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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