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I am trying to mount a NAS on one of my servers:

htadmin@testing:~$ showmount -e 10.0.0.210
Export list for 10.0.0.210:
/humanresources         
/Web                    
/Usb                    
/Recordings             
/Public                 
/Network Recycle Bin 1  
/Multimedia             
/Download               
/Data

Now I try to mount it:

sudo mount -o soft,intr,user_name=administrator,password=xxxxxxxx \
,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 10.0.0.210:/Data /mnt/nas

And I am presented with the following error message:

mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified

Any help here would be great. Thanks!

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  • Try without the user_name and password options. I don't think that's how NFS authentication works
    – cxrodgers
    Apr 29, 2013 at 1:48
  • Try adding the filesystem type to the command line: -t nfs. nfs is not supported by the normal mount command.
    – daniel kullmann
    Apr 29, 2013 at 7:19
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    I don't think NFS supports giving a username/password. The access control is done on the server, which specifies which IP addresses to allow mounting an exported directory
    – daniel kullmann
    Apr 29, 2013 at 7:25
  • Did you created /mnt/nas directory? all the directories you will be using you need to create before, like: sudo mkdir /mnt/nas
    – Rodrigo Oliveira
    Apr 29, 2013 at 14:44
  • could also be a problem with NFS version - ubuntu default is NFSv4 as far as I know, and some NASes (Synology, looking at you!) only support NFS3. I remember having problems with that, and falling back to samba as a consequence.
    – Christoph
    May 2, 2013 at 13:38

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I'd try issuing the command eliding options one by one, this way finding which one is incorrect; that would be a step forward in finding out the actual problem.

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Solution: sudo mount -t cifs //10.0.0.210/data -o username=xxxx,password=xxxx,rw,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755 /mnt/nas

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    aha, so it's not an NFS mount after all. that explains why you need username/password. makes sense now that I know it's samba/cifs
    – cxrodgers
    May 1, 2013 at 9:30

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