-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Using your line as an example, and merging options in one by one, it > turns out that the "fsid=0" was the missing piece. Adding that option > allowed the partition to be mounted. > > This seems like a documentation problem at least, or perhaps even a > nfs4 problem where the built-in defaults aren't adequate for running a > vanilla nfs4 server. > > -wolfgang No, my documentation explains this. http://www.brennan.id.au/19-Network_File_System.html#nfs4 "The most important configuration setting here is the "fsid=0" option which tells the server that this is the pseudofilesystem and that all other directories are contained within this one" NFS vers 3 and 4 are completely different, particularly on the server's export side. The fsid=0 option establishes the initial pseudofilesystem, without that all NFS4 exports will fail. You can not use NFS3 default options for NFS4 and expect it to work. I'm glad you got it going. Cheers, Miles -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFqAqccSPa0xQu/fARArOqAJwJ27HtEO+A+E76fXDOw9oncagTZwCfQEsH MefAsh7xFcCra9TKbmuT58s= =8WVg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----