Connecting Riscos Pi to Unix on NFS

I have just acquired a Raspberry Pi and would like to connect to files I have stored on my NetBSD (unix) machine.

My RiscPC is running Riscos 3. I connect it to my NetBDS machine by launching !omni (which causes a Net icon to appear on the taskbar) and then go:

nfs
mount -host netbsd netbsd /home/mark
adfs

and can then access files of the form /home/mark/xxx from RiscOS as nfs::netbsd.XXX

When I try this on the Raspberry Pi, the command “nfs” is not recognised. How do I mount files on the unix machine?

You need Sunfish.

And luck. I still have file corruptions with NFS under RISC OS, but I don’t know if the problem comes from the client or the server…

THank you, I will investigate!

That worked but it throws up two problems:

1) It pops up an “Enter identification” dialogue box asking for userID and groupID when I try to connect, but does not let me type in either box.

2) I use static IP for the machines on my network. One of these (called netbsd) is not showing up in the Sunfish window, yet I can see a web site on it I go to http://netbsd/ma

Does anyone have any thoughts?

It pops up an “Enter identification” dialogue box asking for userID and groupID when I try to connect, but does not let me type in either box.

When I used Sunfish last, I found that it was the settings at the server end that needed studying and getting right. With several linux machines that get new installations periodically, I found it easier to use Moonfish on RISC OS.
All that is required is to have nfs-common (or equiv) to be installed and to have created a directory for the RISC OS share to appear in.
Then just
sudo mount 192.168.0.100:/moonfish_shareddirname /home/ron/newdirname
and sudo umount
one of those two to unmount it
I haven’t had to use the -t nfs switch for mount so far.

I also stopped using nfs server for linux to linux in favour of the much simpler aoe and vblade method. (only works for ethernet connected machines)

This thread is nearly three weeks old but maybe this information is still of some use:
Sunfish requires the numeric UID and GID (use id -a on your server). It’s a pity it doesn’t say so explicitly.
My FreeBSD NFS Server doesn’t show up, too, I’ve to use “search to host” and enter its IP address.

Sunfish requires the numeric UID and GID (use id -a on your server). It’s a pity it doesn’t say so explicitly.

Is this from Sunfish.documents/index.html not sufficient then?

The NFS protocol requires that all accesses specify a user identification number (UID) and group identification number (GID) to identify who is performing the access, and which files they are allowed to access.

On Unix like servers, you can normally find the UID and GID of a particular user by looking in the /etc/passwd file. On some servers which don’t have a concept of multiple users (for example the Moonfish server running on RISC OS) then the value of the UID and GID does not matter, and the fields can be left blank in order to use the default UID and GID.

Now click on !Sunfish, make no entries to uid & gid and set or save.

Properties>Permissions for /home/Public
In the ‘Others’ section, set ‘folder access’ to ‘create and delete files’

Things could have changed in the last few years though.