NFS mounting from an external server works

[rwhitby]

Once you've got telnet access to your wiz, you can do the following:

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$ mount -t nfs -o nolock server:/export/path /mnt/local/path

Note that the '-o nolock' is what stops NFS looking for portmap (which isn't running on the wiz).

I currently mount an nfs share onto /opt, and use it to install Optware packages (like busybox, ntpclient, etc). It's the only way I can see that we can get a filesystem with symlink semantics on the wiz at the moment (as the kernel doesn't have ext2 or ext3 filesystem support).

Kudos for tonymy01 for finding nfs support initially. All I did was work out the "-o nolock" bit ...

-- Rod

[tonymy01]

Rod, do you know if the default busybox mount mounts nfs ok? I mount using the 1.10.2 busybox I compiled up for the Wiz, as I ticked on a few extra options for the mount that I don't know if the Beyonwiz guys put in.
Regards

[rwhitby]

Rod, do you know if the default busybox mount mounts nfs ok? I mount using the 1.10.2 busybox I compiled up for the Wiz, as I ticked on a few extra options for the mount that I don't know if the Beyonwiz guys put in.

Yes, the mount I am using there is the stock Beyonwiz mount - I don't have scripts in the vfat /opt yet.

-- Rod

[prl]

Is there a corresponding incantation to do SMB mounts from the command line?

I've tried trying to persuade /usr/local/bin/mount.cifs to do it without success.