From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 19 22:39:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zeus.wcs.uq.edu.au (zeus.wcs.uq.edu.au [130.102.222.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0696237B419 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:39:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from garyr@localhost) by zeus.wcs.uq.edu.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fBK6X0Z18677; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:33:00 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from garyr) From: Gary Roberts Message-Id: <200112200633.fBK6X0Z18677@zeus.wcs.uq.edu.au> Subject: Re: mountd, ntfsd, portmap (and friends) In-Reply-To: <013c01c188e4$cb6f6200$0701a8c0@desktop> "from Chynnee at Dec 19, 2001 06:27:58 pm" To: Chynnee Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:32:59 +1000 (EST) Cc: Doug White , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Organisation: Well Control Australia Phone: +617 3844 0400 Fax: +617 3844 0444 Reply-To: garyr@wcs.uq.edu.au (Gary Roberts) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chynnee writes:- > > On 18 Dec 2001, Chynnee wrote: > > > > > problem: > > > i was trying to get NFS working. > > > and nfsd starts w/o issue, but mountd gives: > > > "Cannot register service: RPC: Timed out" > > > after a few min of trying. > > > > You are using rc.conf to enable these, correct? Is 'localhost' defined in > > /etc/hosts? > yes and yes. > > > And you're _sure_ ipfw isn't enabled on the problem box? > and yes. > > if you would like any more info, let me know and i will be more > than happy to provide. In your hosts.allow file do you have a portmap entry like:- portmap : : allow I seem to remember a very similar "Cannot register" message when I forgot to include the above type of line when editing /etc/hosts.allow, although maybe my memory is faulty :-). Cheers, -- Gary Roberts (garyr@wcs.uq.edu.au) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message