[ale] NFS has gone awry!

[Chris Ricker]

On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 db at disctech.net wrote:

> Greetings!  I have a generic NFS problem (I think) and I was wondering
> if anyone could help me out on what exactly it means.  I'm trying to
> mount a remote Linux filesystem from FreeBSD, a la:
> 
> 
> null:[~]# mount_nfs unreach:/ /unreach
> NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered.
> 
> ^C
> null:[~]#
> 
> As you can see, there seems to be a problem with RPC.  The /etc/exports
> file on the remote linux box reads the line:
> 
> /	null(ro,no_root_squash)
> 
> ...which should export the / filesystem to the machine null, which is
> defined in the /etc/hosts file.  Could someone tell me what's going on
> here?

Your problem is your *BSD box (but we knew that already ;-).

For starters, make sure that the portmap daemon is running on it.  It should
be set to enable in /etc/rc.conf and then actually be getting started by
/etc/rc.network.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                            kaboom at gatech.edu
                                               chris.ricker at m.cc.utah.edu