NFS and amd on older FreeBSD

[Greg Byshenk]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 03:47:37PM -0800, Karl Young wrote:
> I inherited a lab that has a few hundred hosts running FreeBSD 7.2.
> These hosts run test scripts that access files that are stored on
> FreeBSD 6.3 host.  The 6.3 host exports a /data directory with NFS
> 
> [...]
>
> $ showmount -e  9.3-host
> Exports list on 9.3-host:
> /data                           Everyone
> 
> But I can't automount it:
> 
> $ ls -l /net/9.3-host/data
> ls: /net/9.3-host/data: No such file or directory
> 
> If I manually mount the exported directory, it works:
> 
> $ sudo mount -t nfs 9.3-host:/data /mnt/data/
> $ mount | grep nfs
> 9.3-host:/data on /mnt/data (nfs)
> 
> $ ls -l /mnt/data
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x  9 root  wheel  512 Dec 20 17:41 iaf2
> 
> I've spent some time on Google, but haven't found a solution.  I realize
> these are very old versions, but I'm not in a position to upgrade them
> right now.  My last resort will be to use /etc/fstab to do the NFS
> mount, but I'd rather avoid that if I can.

If you can mount the share manually, there is almost 
certainly nothing wrong with the server. Based on the
error ("No such file or directory"), I would recommend
checking your amd config on the client.


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