NFS - Protocol Not Supported / Access Denied

[whizzard]

Hello... I am using the latest stable merlin firmware on my RTAC66-U.. but I am having all sorts of trouble mounting an NFS share of the router (of a plugged in USB disk) from a Debian client. I created a "/nfs" folder to mount the NFS to on my root filesystem in the Debian client.

I have tried using legacy mode as well as NFSV4 but I either get access denied or protocol not supported errors when I try to mount them.

I tried the "*" as well as "192.168.1.0/24" and even leaving it blank but I just can't access that NFS share. I have followed all instructions I can find on the web but nothing seems to work. I tried both protocol options such as

#mount -o mountproto=tcp (also tried =udp)

right now the closest I can get is a protocol not supported when I use the following:

#sudo mount -o vers=4 192.168.1.1:/tmp/mnt/drive/new /nfs

along with

##sudo mount -o vers=4 192.168.1.1:/mnt/drive/new /nfs
and the result is:
#mount.nfs: Protocol not supported

or

#mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 192.168.1.1:mnt/drive/new


Here is the current exports file from the router (I tried just mounting the whole filesystem, still no luck):
##export file##
/mnt 192.168.1.0/24(no_root_squash,rw)

and the fstab of the Debian client if it helps:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Auto generated by RootStock-NG: setup_sdcard.sh
#
/dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs defaults 0 0

Any help would be so appreciated I have been hacking at this thing for about 3 hours now with no victory. The whole point of the Debian system was to utilize the USB disks connected to the router, so I need to find a way to get solid access to them.

 

[RMerlin]

Asuswrt-Merlin does not support NFSv4, only v2 and v3.

 

[whizzard]

Asuswrt-Merlin does not support NFSv4, only v2 and v3.

Thanks for that information... so I need to somehow enable V3 or V2 on my client?

I have tried using the vers=2 and vers=3 in the mount command and still get "access denied" error.

 

[whizzard]

And may I say... thank you for replying to my forum question so quick. I appreciate when a dev takes the time out like that. I donated to you last year as well.. I swear!

Any idea if I can get to connect to the router's NFS? Any tricks, options, or methods?

edit: I really don't want to use the OEM firmware just because it supports NFS V4.... is there any workaround I can use to get the NFS export to let my client in?

Is NFS a Merlin only feature? Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[RMerlin]

And may I say... thank you for replying to my forum question so quick. I appreciate when a dev takes the time out like that. I donated to you last year as well.. I swear!

Any idea if I can get to connect to the router's NFS? Any tricks, options, or methods?

edit: I really don't want to use the OEM firmware just because it supports NFS V4.... is there any workaround I can use to get the NFS export to let my client in?

Is NFS a Merlin only feature? Any help greatly appreciated.

NFS support is something that I added long ago. It wasn't very stable on the MIPS models probably due to the old kernel, so I haven't paid any further attention to it.

Not being an expert, I can't help you any further. I always have to use some online guide whenever I need to play with NFS (which occurs once every few years at best).

 

[whizzard]

NFS support is something that I added long ago. It wasn't very stable on the MIPS models probably due to the old kernel, so I haven't paid any further attention to it.

Not being an expert, I can't help you any further. I always have to use some online guide whenever I need to play with NFS (which occurs once every few years at best).

NFS support is something that I added long ago. It wasn't very stable on the MIPS models probably due to the old kernel, so I haven't paid any further attention to it.

Not being an expert, I can't help you any further. I always have to use some online guide whenever I need to play with NFS (which occurs once every few years at best).

Thats OK Merlin, thanks again for answering my questions. I ended up figuring out how to mount the USB disks using samba instead of NFS. I was going to go for NFS because I figured it was better but I really don't know that it is. Thanks again for your help, and your awesome firmware!