SUMMARY: mount failure

From: Nancy M. Wallace (nmw@hnt.com)
Date: Wed Jun 23 1999 - 12:49:34 CDT


> From: Harry Levinson <levinson@ll.mit.edu>
> To: Nancy M. Wallace <nmw@hnt.com>
> Subject: Re: mount failure

> Did you set up shares? If so, you also need to do a
> '/etc/init.d/nfs.server start' to start up the nfsd and mountd
processes.
> They are not started if there is not a dfstab sharing filesystems.

This was, in fact the problem. The dfstab was empty, because I wanted the
mount to be temporary, so I tried to add it by using the share command
rather than editing /etc/dfs/dfstab. Thanks to all who responded.

Nancy M. Wallace nmw@hnt.com
System Administrator 617-227-4151
Harrison & Troxell, Inc.



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