Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:51:43 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu> To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> Cc: Theo PAGTZIS <T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS and removable disks Message-ID: <3895E7CF.349423C0@math.udel.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001311053540.289-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
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de0 is the DEC 21040 NIC, not a disk-drive related driver. On the machine where the portmapper complains, does the de0 device show up in the boot messages as been seen by the kernel? That's the best place to start looking. Sorry to respond to Mr. Beisser, but I don't have the original question. "f.johan.beisser" wrote: > 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 -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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