From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 31 11: 6: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (pogo.caustic.org [208.44.193.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E60B14A09 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:05:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.9.3/ignatz) with ESMTP id LAA14772; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:02:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:02:38 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Theo PAGTZIS Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS and removable disks In-Reply-To: <1268.949339783@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i've moved this over to freebsd-questions, since it's more appropriate for that mailing list. On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Theo PAGTZIS wrote: > Hi all, hello. > I have the following problem. I have moved my disk with Fbsd 3.3 > onto a diff machine with exactly the same network interface on both > machines de0. ok, good. this is a zip drive? or what? > However when I am trying to do mount on the machines NFS responds with > > NFS Portmap: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out this means that one of them doesn't much like the other. have you checked the /etc/exports file? or, for that matter, made sure that you have everything configured properly? > When I ask people what does NFS depend on between client and servers I > get the response of only IP address. So since the IP address is the > same I am puzzled as to why there is port map failure. i'm assuming you mean the hard drive, not some other thing, like a floppy or zip drive. if you moved the hard drive, it should not be having to much of a problem, on the other hand true "removeable media" drive would not be automagically set to be exported without some work on your part. > Could anyone enlighten on the reason of why this happens? > > BTW when I ping the ping works ok as well as telnet does at a guess, i'd say it's misconfigured. or the portmapper isn't working correctly. you need to check for both on your machines. -- jan +-----// f. johan beisser //------------------------------+ email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message