mount.nfs: No such device - error

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Hey!

First of all, thank you! I am new to openSUSE11 but not to *nix.

I have been staring at this for about four hours and probably am doing something very wrong.

I have a share via /etc/exports

It is sharing correctly because when I use the YaST gui it finds it when I ask it to browse the IP of the server. No problem. The file:

/home/patrick/FTPRoot/ *(rw,all_squash,anonuid=1000,anongid=100)

When I exportfs -va it says:

exporting *:/home/patrick/FTPRoot

When I try to mount it the following happens:

mount -t nfs 192.168.1.100:/home/patrick/FTPRoot /home/patrick/NFSMountPoint

mount.nfs: No such device

Now the directory exists because:

linux-nejj:/home/patrick # cd NFSMountPoint
linux-nejj:/home/patrick/NFSMountPoint #

My first 16 attempts were through the gui, assuming it could do it better than I could. . the last couple have been command line.

I would appreciate any advice or pointers. .

Thank you!

Patrick

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hey all!

Couple of notes: All are on the same subnet, all can be pinged from each other, etc. I have basic network connectivity. All firewalls are disabled *

When I try to mount this share from a Fedora 9 machine [Check my profile name carefully. . ;)] I get:

[root@inspiron5315 Patrick]# mount -t ntfs 192.168.1.100:/home/patrick/FTPRoot /home/Patrick/NTFSMountPoint
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume ‘192.168.1.100:/home/patrick/FTPRoot’: No such file or directory
Please type ‘/sbin/mount.ntfs --help’ for more information.

Thank you!

Patrick*

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Hey all!

slowly I’ll figure this out.

when I looked at this with slept eyes, I saw my typing problem from the fedora machine - when i typed:

mount -t nfs 192.168.1.100:/home/patrick/FTPRoot /home/Patrick/NTFSMountPoint it worked.

I mistyped NTFS with NFS [in both the command and the directory name! Caffeine does not replace sleep.]

So, I can mount the directory from my Fedora9 machine. But not the openSUSE11 machine I mentioned earlier. . .

More later!

Thank you!

Patrick