Common NFS Error

Recently while trying to connect to an NFS share I got a familiar error message:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on Machine:/path,
     missing codepage or helper program, or other error
     (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
     need a /sbin/mount.helper program)
     In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
     dmesg | tail  or so

I checked the usual configuration files to verify that I had the necessary permissions:

/etc/exports <- client should be allowed here with necessary access rights (r,w,rw etc) 

/etc/hosts.allow 

/etc/hosts.deny <- client should not be listed here. 

All the configuration files were valid. The solution to the problem was to install nfs-common:

sudo apt-get install nfs-common

The nfs share can be mounted with:

sudo mount server_name:/path/to/remote/share local_mount_dir

eg.

sudo mount Harry_Hardcore:/home/harry/share  /home/user/share

Enjoy! :)