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I think I over explained.. I don't know what "handle" is. If I use

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mount

on the existing machine, I see

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]<Directory1> on <NAS1:>

yada yada yada. Is NAS1 the handle? Or in that context, what does "handle" look like?

On my existing machine, I used

Code:

showmount

and it just showed other IP addresses.

Thanks!

An NFS "handle" is like a 'sharename' in Microsoft speak.

So I would say that NAS1 is not the handle, more likely it is Directory1 of your output.

After you can ping your NAS I would expect:

Code:

# showmount <NAS ip address>

e.g.

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# showmount 192.168.1.99

to show you what NFS handles are available on that (NAS) ip address.

What says:

Code:

# mount <NAS ip address>:<Directory1> /mnt

Try it. You can't do any damage, it will just be refused if it's not right.

Actually it's

Code:

showmount -e <NAS ip address>

@MadeInGermany......Yes, of course, thanks. Glad somebody is awake!

Yeah I'm getting

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Permission denied

Tried looking at

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 /etc/dfs/dfstab
 /etc/exports

but they don't exist

Where would I put the password?

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Also- thanks.. adding

Code:

-e

to

Code:

showmount

seems to have done the trick.

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To clarify- by "done the trick" I mean found the handle... I still have the permission issue..

Before we go looking at potential password issues there are a few things to checkout first.

Currently NFS comes in three versions, 3,4 and 5. They need to be matched between communicating nodes. Also, we may be being denied write access but we don't need write to do a restore.

So lets try:

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# mount -F nfs -o vers=3 -r <NAS ip address>:<handle> /mnt

and try vers=4 and vers=5 too.

The -r means we will accept a readonly connection.

Try all combinations and see what happens.

Yes, some NAS can be configured to require a password but that is unlikely in this case if you didn't need one to mount for the dump.

Who manages the NAS?

If could be that the NAS is rejecting a connection request from the ip address you are using. Maybe the NAS just needs to be told to accept the connection. NAS often are managed via a browser connection.