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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 14:28:16 -0400
From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
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Randall D. DuCharme wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
>    I'm kinda confused.  I just completed the novice install on another pair
> of machines on which I've intended to experiment with NFS.  I've set them
> both up as NFS clients and servers.  Everything in /etc/fstab and
> /etc/exports appears to be in order, yet when starting, or when manually
> entering   "mount -a -t nfs"  the system responds...
> 
> NFS  Portmap:  RPC: Program not registered.
> 
> I realize this is probably really dumb, but I can't seem to resolve it on
> my own.

I'm not a nfs guru, I use it with out a problem.

But I belive that means that nfs is not running.. (Not sure though)

Do they show up under 'ps auxw'
Look for: mountd, nfsd-??????? (nfsd), nfsiod.

% ps auxw | grep mountd
% ps auxw | grep nfs

-Enjoy
Gary
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