Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:55:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: allen campbell <allenc@verinet.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot perform NFS mount Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808101653010.29015-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980808034856.A3337@verinet.com>
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On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, allen campbell wrote: > I have been trying to resolve a problem with NFS and FreeBSD and > I have finally come to the point where I have to ask for help. I > believe I have covered all of the obvious bases and I have simply > run of ideas. > > I wish to perform an NFS mount. The NFS server in question is > www.caldera.com. This is a public NFS server. > > To make a long story short, I have found that RPC operations fail > when performed as root: > > struct> su > Password: > # mount -t nfs rim.caldera.com:/OpenLinux-Lite-1.2 /mnt > NFS Portmap: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out > > (... the timeout repeats several times, approx. once a minute.) Works fine here. Do you have portmap running on your machine? It's dog slow, portmap may be timing out. > program vers proto port > 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper > 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper > 100005 1 udp 2048 mountd > 100005 2 udp 2048 mountd > 100005 1 tcp 2048 mountd > 100005 2 tcp 2048 mountd > 100003 2 udp 2049 nfs > 100003 2 tcp 2049 nfs I confirm ths output .. > > I have configured this host properly: nfs_client_enable, > nfs_server_enable and portmap_enable are all assigned YES in rc.conf. > I have confirmed that mountd, nfsd, mfsiod and portmap are all > running. The kernel is compiled with NFS support. Did you reboot since changing those? What kind of link are you going over? NFS over the Internet is a Bad Idea. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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