Mounting an NFS share on the NGW100

The NGW100 Development Board

The NGW100 Development Board

The NGW100 is a development board for the Atmel AVR32 AT32AP7000 32-bit MCU. It includes two Ethernet ports, a serial interface, USB client support, and an SD/MMC media slot. The board comes with a port of OpenWrt embedded Linux.

When trying to transfer files to the NGW100 I realized that the FTP server running on the device is very finicky especially when transferring files onto a media card. For this reason, I decided it would be better to mount a NFS share onto the NGW100.

You may have noticed that mounting an NFS share on the NGW100, the following does not work, resulting in an error:

mount -t nfs server:/data/public /media/public
mount: mounting server:/data/public on /media/public failed

You must specify the following options in order to mount a NFS share on the NGW100, and it should successfully mount the NFS share.

mount -t nfs -o nfsvers=2,nolock server:/data/public /media/public

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