mount can't find entry in /etc/fstab

[Mark G. Brown]

Configuration: SunOS3.5 running on a Sun 3/180

Can anyone tell me under what circumstances the following command

`mount /water/local`

would fail with the message "requested filesystem not in fstab", when
there is a line in /etc/fstab:

water:/water/local /water/local nfs rw,bg,retry=2,timeo=20,intr 0 0

and the directory /water/local exists on the local machine?

(The command `mount water:/water/local /water/local worked just fine.)

-markb

Mark G. Brown, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309 (303)-492-3972
markb at boulder.colorado.edu  -or-  !ncar!boulder!markb