[Gllug] Linux Mint fstab bemusement - never seen anything like this before, how do I get nfs working?

[James Pearson]

M.Blackmore wrote:
> This is the fstab that Mint Linux installed - I've never seen the like,
> and simply grafting on my "usual" nfs links doesn't work.
> ...
> 
> # My usual nfs import lines fail miserably
> 192.168.0.x:/exports/malcolm    /home/malcolm/Documents nfs defaults 0 0
> 192.168.0.x:/exports    /home/malcolm/imports   nfs defaults 0 0
> 
> This is the output of mount -a (the destination directories on the latop
> have been created! And mount is working fine on another machine):
> 
> [mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> 192.168.0.1:/exports/malcolm,
>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> 192.168.0.1:/exports,
>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so

Do you have NFS client support in the kernel - i.e. what does 'grep nfs 
/proc/filesystems' report?

James Pearson
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