Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:02:38 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Theo PAGTZIS <T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS and removable disks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001311053540.289-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <1268.949339783@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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i've moved this over to freebsd-questions, since it's more appropriate for that mailing list. On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Theo PAGTZIS wrote: > Hi all, hello. > I have the following problem. I have moved my disk with Fbsd 3.3 > onto a diff machine with exactly the same network interface on both > machines de0. ok, good. this is a zip drive? or what? > However when I am trying to do mount on the machines NFS responds with > > NFS Portmap: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out this means that one of them doesn't much like the other. have you checked the /etc/exports file? or, for that matter, made sure that you have everything configured properly? > When I ask people what does NFS depend on between client and servers I > get the response of only IP address. So since the IP address is the > same I am puzzled as to why there is port map failure. i'm assuming you mean the hard drive, not some other thing, like a floppy or zip drive. if you moved the hard drive, it should not be having to much of a problem, on the other hand true "removeable media" drive would not be automagically set to be exported without some work on your part. > Could anyone enlighten on the reason of why this happens? > > BTW when I ping the ping works ok as well as telnet does at a guess, i'd say it's misconfigured. or the portmapper isn't working correctly. you need to check for both on your machines. -- jan +-----// f. johan beisser //------------------------------+ email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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