From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 23:03:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA19383 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:03:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from riker.comcirc.com.au (riker.comcirc.com.au [203.17.165.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA19373 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:02:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from paul@localhost) by riker.comcirc.com.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA26195; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 18:00:22 +1100 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 18:00:22 +1100 (EST) From: Paul Sondhu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Setting up NFS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to set up NFS between two FreeBSD machines and am having a few problems. The only help and info I have found in setting up NFS is from news articles from the freebsd web site and even that doesnt seem very helpful. What I have tried to do is this: On the machine that I want to share a directory in I have created an /etc/exports file and have put in that file the following line: /usr/local/webpages riker.comcirc.com.au where /usr/local/webpages is the directory I want to access from the hostname riker.comcirc.com.au Then I have run nfsd ( as root ). On the machine I want to mount the remote filesystem on ( riker.comcirc.com.au ) I type the following line ( as root also ): mount troi.comcirc.com.au:/usr/local/webpages /mnt where troi.comcirc.com.au is the remote machine running nfsd When I run this command I get the following message and nothing happens: NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registerd I get the following error when I run showmount -e troi on the remote machine: Program not registered Cant do exports rpc I was wondering if someone could tell me what these messages mean and how I go about getting NFS up and running. Regards, Paul. --------------------------------------- Paul Sondhu | P.Sondhu@comcirc.com.au