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Date:      Wed, 01 Aug 2001 19:02:17 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        Wouter Cuypers <voutah@detroit.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS setup problems
Message-ID:  <3B683619.E894AD9E@i-clue.de>
References:  <20010731174610.6E1FF9BB3E@pop3.telenet-ops.be>

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Wouter Cuypers wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to setup a NFS server on our home network. After following
> the online tutorial on freebsd.org i cannot mount a directory on my
> linux machines.
> "mount -t nfs plexus:/home" returns "mount: RPC: timeout" (plexus is the
> FreeBSD server on 10.0.0.1)
> 
> My /etc/exports looks like this:
> 
> /home 10.0.0.2
> /nfs -alldirs -maproot=0 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.3
> /nfs -alldirs -ro 10.0.0.4
> 
> rc.conf contains:
> 
> portmap_enable="YES"
> nfs_server_enable="YES"
> nfs_server_flags="-u -t -n 4"
> mountd_flags="-r"
> 
> The linux is a fresh Mandrake 8.0 and it's supposed to have NFS client
> support by default. No kernel changes were made.

Is the portmapper running? Are there some nfs daemons in ps output? Just
putting the entries into rc.conf does not start the daemons. Either
reboot. or glimpes through rc.network to learn how to start all NFS
daemons.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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