On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:41:01PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > anarres:/# mount -t nfs 128.100.34.8:/home/matt /racesci/matt > mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive
It's been a while since I had problems like that, but I vaguely remember that errors like that sometimes come up when the RPC portmapper on the server isn't running or isn't accepting connections. Can you use "rpcinfo -p <server>" from your client machine? You should see mountd and nfs (and a few other things) in the service listing. It's possible that the server has a "default" firewall/hosts.deny setup that's blocking your client connection. Recent versions of Red Hat offer to set up basic firewalling during installation (commendable, since one of RH's main target audiences is new/inexperienced users). I think current versions of the portmapper also use hosts.allow and hosts.deny, with the special service name of "portmap". If the server has something like "all: all" in hosts.deny (a common and recommended practice) you'll need to add an entry to hosts.allow for your machine. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
