From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 29 11:44:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA29587 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 11:44:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA29581 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 11:44:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.5/8.8.4) id UAA00469; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 20:41:58 +0200 (MESZ) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199709291841.UAA00469@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: NFS In-Reply-To: <199709291505.MAA05443@dragon.acadiau.ca> from Michael Richards at "Sep 29, 97 12:05:27 pm" To: 026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca (Michael Richards) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 20:41:58 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It was Michael Richards who wrote: > Hi, > Does anyone know how to enable NFS clients? > I went into rc.conf and set the nfs_client line to "YES" In addition, you have to set (a few lines below nfs_client_enable) portmap_enable="YES" > mount_nfs somehose.somewhere.com:/home/nfs /mnt/ > Cannot MNT RPC: RPC: Program not registered Besides, you should prefer: mount -t nfs somehose.somewhere.com:/home/nfs /mnt (mount_* is for "internal" use only) Robert > I don't know what to tell it!!! > > thanks > -Mike -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de