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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:39:04 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        David Landgren <david@landgren.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Connection refusal for an NFS mount
Message-ID:  <20060720183904.GA72155@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
In-Reply-To: <44BFC0B4.5000108@landgren.net>
References:  <44BF9E40.7090104@landgren.net> <20060720164601.GA71581@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <44BFC0B4.5000108@landgren.net>

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On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 07:43:16PM +0200, David Landgren wrote:
> David Kelly wrote:
> >
> >For starters try "showmount -e the.freebsd.ip.address" on the Linux box
> >to see if the Linux box sees the NFS daemons on the FreeBSD machine.
> 
> Hrm.
> 
> # showmount -e 172.17.0.21
> mount clntudp_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive

I don't think NFS is going to work until you can get past the above
problem. Running "showmount -e" on your FreeBSD machine should display
the essential contents of /etc/exports.

What does the FreeBSD machine have to say about your attempts to connect
from Linux in /var/log/messages?

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
========================================================================
Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.



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