All so make sure portmap it on... Robert On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 22:29, John Lowell wrote: > > I have a three machine network behind a router which acts as a DHCP > server and a gateway to the internet via an ADSL modem . Two of the > machines have their IP addresses assigned by the router dynamically. The > other, set aside to act as a webserver, has been given a static IP > address outside of the range available to the router for dynamic > addressing and has been configured for port forwarding. I'm using Red > Hat 8.0 Workstation installations on the dynamically assigned computers > and a Red Hat 8.0 Server installation, of course, on the webserver. > Wanting to be able to share files on the two dynamically assigned > computers, I've made an attempt to set up each machine as a NFS file > server. Starting with the first machine, I wrote a simple /etc/exports > file permitting unfetterred access to the whole of the file system by > the other computer. The entries in /etc/exports were as follows: > > / 192.168.1.101(rw) > > Next, I ran > > chconfig nfs on > chconfig nfslock on > > to start the nfs daemons. Rebooting, and running > > rpcinfo -p > > I was shown entries both for mountd and nfs, so I moved on to the client > machine. > > At the client, where I've chosen to manually mount NFS, as root I ran > > mkdir /mnt/192.168.1.100 > mount 192.168.1.100:/home/jlowell/moneydance /mnt/192.168.1.100 > > and get the following output: > > mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: unable to receive > > Would someone be kind enough to explain to me what's going off the rails > here? As far as I know I've done what has to be done so as to enable > mounting on the client computer. > > John Lowell > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
