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Date:      Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:44:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Freebsd <freebsd@successbbs.com>
Cc:        Freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NFS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960828194241.361C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1965998762-960828161607@successbbs.com>

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On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Freebsd wrote:

> I am trying to get NFS working on my BSD 2.1.5 box. I have Server NFS
> enabled in my inetd.conf, and Client NFS enabled on my other Free-BSD
> 2.1.5 box. I also have all the RPC services enabled in my inetd.conf
> on both computers. But when I try to do a mount_nfs, it gives the
> following error:
> 
> NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered
> 
> In my messages file it says portmap[xxx]: cannot bind udp: Address
> already in use. When I do an rpcinfo -p hostname, it gives:
> 
> Does it have something to do with my /etc/services file?

No.  

Sounds like portmapper isn't running on both machines. (Why it needs it, I
don't know; it appears to want to use rpc.nfsd.)  

You should enable NFS Server through /etc/sysconfig, not through
inet.conf. Similarly you should enable client NFS in sysconfig on the
client box.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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