Stale NFS file handle – mounting NFS Share on Fedora Server

[Shadomaker]

Hi All,

I’m trying to mount my home directory share to a Fedora Server in order to test an LTSP setup. My 10.5.6 Leopard Server – msdocs.huronhs.com – has NFS running, and has shared out its “home” share via NFS to the world (for now -testing). NFS is enabled. On my testing LTSP box – testing.huronhs.com – I’m running the command “mount -t nfs msdocs.huronhs.com:/home /Network/Servers/msdocs.huronhs.com/home -v” and getting the message “mount(2) Stale NFS file handle” along with “text-based options: ‘addr=10.13.2.9′” (which is the IP of the msdocs server).

I try this from any of my 4 docs servers and get the same message. As such, I’ve rebooted the fedora box to retry this again – with nothing. I’ve also deleted and remade the directory /Network/Servers/msdocs.huronhs.com/home on the FEDORA box – but that didn’t help. I even tried unmounting the share, but it assures me that the share isn’t mounted. Has anyone seen this or fixed the problem?

Googling tells me this error normally occurs when a link to a file/folder changes (or is deleted), but I’m just trying to mount the share. DNS forward/reverse works, and it finds the IP to the server.

Any solutions?

[Shadomaker]

Turns out you need to specify the CORRECT path, instead of just the mount name.

i.e. “mount -t msdocs.huronhs.com:/Volumes/DataHD/home /Network/Servers/msdocs.huronhs.com/home”

Then it works.

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