Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 06:42:21 +0300 From: Igor Pokrovsky <tiamat@comset.net> To: Rob <nospam@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS problem: "RPC: Port mapper failure" Message-ID: <20031229034221.GA671@doom.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <3FEECA99.4030603@users.sourceforge.net> References: <3FEECA99.4030603@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 09:20:41PM +0900, Rob wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running two FreeBSD-Stable PCs. > > One is an NFS server and the other NFS client. Everything used to > work fine until recently. I suspect that either the new kernel is the > problem (although there are no complaints on the stable mailing list) > or the network administration has changed some things. > > The server is on 147.46.44.183 with following /etc/exports: > /usr/ports -maproot=root 147.47.254.184 > /home/entertainment -ro 147.47.254.184 > > The server boots with rc.conf: > nfs_reserved_port_only="YES" > portmap_enable="YES" > nfs_server_enable="YES" > mountd_flags="-r" > > The client boots with rc.conf: > nfs_reserved_port_only="YES" > nfs_client_enable="YES" > > On the client (147.47.254.184) I do not get the proper response on: > $ showmount -e 147.46.44.183 > RPC: Port mapper failure > showmount: can't do exports rpc > > Doing a mount_nfs on the client, gives the same port mapper failure. > > Portmap is running on the server; it is not on the client, but > that should be OK here, right? > > I am at a total loss, since I have no idea how to investigate further > what is actually going wrong. What could be a reason for the RPC Port > mapper failure? How else can I test the port mapper's functunality? You can try to check if nfsd and portmap really started on server: sockstat | grep portmap and sockstat | grep nfsd -ip -- "Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred." -- The Mahabharata.
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