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From: Michael Ranner <rmike@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>
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To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: NFS: Problem with portmap (fwd)
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On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Guido van Rooij wrote:

> > I like to mount a FreeBSD partition from several PC's. Now I have some 
> > problems: I have NOT choosen "NFS Server" at installation time and so I 
> > tried to turn on the NFS server in /etc/sysconfig. nfsd and mountd are 
> > both running. I have also installed rpc.pcnfsd. But the problem occures in 
> > conjunction with portmap.
> > 
> > If I try to run "rpcinfo -b nfs 2" I get a error message like this:
> > 
> > portmap["pid"] ... callit(nfs) request not forwarded
> > 
> > (Sorry for the unaccurate error message, I don't sit in front of the 
> > machine at the moment)
> > 
> > I will also get this message, if any of the PC's tries to search for an 
> > NFS server.
> > 
> 
> I but you are suing the FTP inc software. It behaves badly in that it uses
> the proxy code in portmap to do requests. This has been disabled in FreeBSD
> because it opens up sever security holes.
> 
> You should get pcnfs or something like that.

That means, if I run the nfs client software from FTP Software, I will 
get this problem, right? I have to check this, but I think you are right.

It is possible, that the error on "rpcinfo -b nfs 2" (even on localhost)
only appears after a mount from the FTP inc client. I rebooted the 
machine and tried "rpcinfo -b nfs 2" and there was no error message, but 
there was no try to mount from the PC before.

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