May
02
mounting network shares in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) - missing codepage or helper program, or other error
23:29
I couldn’t mount a network drive using nfs or smbfs in a terminal session in the usual way with a fresh installation of Ubuntu 8.04.
returns the error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on …
missing codepage or helper progra, or other error
(for several filesystems….
so it could be a number of things, but it turns out simply that Ubuntu 8.4 doesn’t have nfs-common package installed by default (it’s probably written somewhere but not very obvious)
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mount -t nfs 192.168.1.1:/usr/share /mnt/sharereturns the error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on …
missing codepage or helper progra, or other error
(for several filesystems….
so it could be a number of things, but it turns out simply that Ubuntu 8.4 doesn’t have nfs-common package installed by default (it’s probably written somewhere but not very obvious)
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