From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 3 16:30:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA19832 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 16:30:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rfd1.oit.umass.edu (mailhub.oit.umass.edu [128.119.175.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA19795 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 16:30:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lessing.oit.umass.edu by rfd1.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #20973) with ESMTP id <0EHI00I27193J5@rfd1.oit.umass.edu> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 19:29:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gp@localhost) by lessing.oit.umass.edu (8.8.3/8.8.6) with SMTP id TAA27656 for ; Fri, 03 Oct 1997 19:29:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 19:29:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Pavelcak Subject: Parallel port connection laptop<-->desktop To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to connect my laptop and desktop via parallel ports. They can successfully ping one another; but if I try to mount -t nfs host:path, I get NFS Postmap: RPC: Program not registered. rpcinfo on both machines gives program vers proto port 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper Can anyone tell me how to make this work? Thanks Greg