Re: Having trouble with MOUNT *NFS

Mark,

The error says it can't find an address for 'develop.domain.com'. So, this isn't an authority error, it's a host lookup error.

Now... here's a guess as the cause of the problem... this is just a guess, but it's worth looking into:

I think NFS may need to know your local IBM i's IP address. Since computers can, potentially, have multiple IP addresses, it needs a way to know which one is your "canonical" IP address. The way it'll try to do that is by getting your host name (by concatenating the "host" and "domain" names shown on CFGTCP option 12) and then attempting to look up the IP address for that name.

Does that make sense here? When it says "develop.domain.com" in your error message, is that the name from CFGTCP option 12??

If so, you need to make sure that it can look up THAT host name in addition to the "RMTSERVER" one. I'm thinking you made sure RMTSERVER is available in the host table, but maybe it didn't occur to you to put the "develop.domain.com" one in the host table as well? Just a guess.

The error is a host lookup error, so it's not related to authority or what services are running on windows or any of that stuff. However, once you get past this host lookup error, it's certainly possible that you'll run into those things next! If you haven't already installed the NFS server (Unix Tools) thing that Charles mentioned, you'll definitely need to do that as well, and that'll cause the next error you get after you fix the host lookup one. :-)

Good luck!

-SK





On 1/8/2016 1:47 PM, mlazarus wrote:

I am attempting the following command:
MOUNT TYPE(*NFS)
MFS('RMTSYSTEM:/SharedFolder')
MNTOVRDIR('/LocalFolder/Mark/')

I receive error:

Message ID . . . . . . : CPFA1CE Severity . . . . . . . : 40
Message type . . . . . : Diagnostic
Date sent . . . . . . : 01/08/16 Time sent . . . . . . : 14:37:07

Message . . . . : Cannot find an address for the specified system name.
Cause . . . . . : An error was detected while attempting to retrieve
communication information about the host DEVELOP.DOMAIN.COM.
Recovery . . . : Verify the host name to assure it was entered
correctly.
Or, refer to the getaddrinfo() API in the Socket programming topic
collection in the Programming category in the IBM i Information
Center for
more information about recovery actions for this problem.


- The target system name is in the hosts table (I can PING it), and I
get the same error if I use the IP address.

- /SharedFolder is a share on the remote (Windows) system.

- I can view the directory using Windows Explorer.

- /LocalFolder/Mark/ exists on the local IFS.

Can this be an authority issue? It would seem to be that it didn't
get that far, since the message seems to indicate that it can't locate
the server.

How would a user ID and password get passed to the remote server?

-mark