From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 19:44:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA04982 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:44:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.61]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA04961 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:44:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00384; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:44:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:44:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Freebsd cc: Freebsd-questions Subject: Re: NFS In-Reply-To: <1965998762-960828161607@successbbs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Freebsd wrote: > I am trying to get NFS working on my BSD 2.1.5 box. I have Server NFS > enabled in my inetd.conf, and Client NFS enabled on my other Free-BSD > 2.1.5 box. I also have all the RPC services enabled in my inetd.conf > on both computers. But when I try to do a mount_nfs, it gives the > following error: > > NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered > > In my messages file it says portmap[xxx]: cannot bind udp: Address > already in use. When I do an rpcinfo -p hostname, it gives: > > Does it have something to do with my /etc/services file? No. Sounds like portmapper isn't running on both machines. (Why it needs it, I don't know; it appears to want to use rpc.nfsd.) You should enable NFS Server through /etc/sysconfig, not through inet.conf. Similarly you should enable client NFS in sysconfig on the client box. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major