>>>>> "elliott-brennan" == elliott-brennan  <[email protected]> writes:

elliott-brennan> Hi all, Has anyone much experience with FreeNAS?

elliott-brennan> I've set up a trial box here at home.

elliott-brennan> All seems fine.

elliott-brennan> I've followed the destructions in the manual,
elliott-brennan> according to which I needed to format the drives
elliott-brennan> (there are two 320G HDD in the machine) in UFS as
elliott-brennan> I've only 2G of RAM in the machine.

elliott-brennan> The following is a summary:

elliott-brennan> **************** Anyway. I've followed the
elliott-brennan> destructions. I can connect and transfer files to the
elliott-brennan> thing IF I use FTP. Which I don't want to.

elliott-brennan> I want to use it so that I can automate backups from
elliott-brennan> the machines at home. Eventually I want to put in
elliott-brennan> either one or two 2Tb disk. At present I have two
elliott-brennan> 320G left overs.

elliott-brennan> So, I've followed through stuff here:

elliott-brennan> http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Unix_(NFS)_Shares

elliott-brennan> If you check from *Sample NFS Share Configuration*
elliott-brennan> down, on the page I've listed, then
elliott-brennan> # mount -t nfs 192.168.2.2:/mnt/data /mnt mount:
elliott-brennan> wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
elliott-brennan> 192.168.2.2:/mnt/data, missing codepage or helper
elliott-brennan> program, or other error (for several filesystems
elliott-brennan> (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount.<type>
elliott-brennan> helper program) In some cases useful info is found in
elliott-brennan> syslog - try dmesg | tail or so

That message may mean you haven't got the nfs-client installed on your
system.

Do 
   dmesg | tail
like it says after the mount attempt, to see what the kernel message
is.

Peter C
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