From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 11 11:16:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA08731 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:16:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gvr.win.tue.nl (root@gvr.win.tue.nl [131.155.210.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA08725 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.win.tue.nl (8.8.5/8.8.2) id UAA07762; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 20:16:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Guido van Rooij Message-Id: <199704111816.UAA07762@gvr.win.tue.nl> Subject: Re: NFS: Problem with portmap (fwd) In-Reply-To: from Michael Ranner at "Apr 11, 97 02:30:04 pm" To: rmike@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 20:16:25 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Ranner wrote: > > Hi there! > > 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. -Guido