On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: : Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > Having moved our RAID array from a BSD box to a Debian box, I'm trying : > to set up NFS. I have an area I'd like all our clients to be able to : > mount publically (it's a public ftp dir) : > : > Debian Linux runs mountd through RPC. BSD didn't - mountd ran : > standalone. Having RTFM, I think Debian does this for security (?) - I : > can't get it to work. : : You are mistaken. At least in the sense of BSD not using RPC. NFS : mounting is an ONC RPC call no matter what system you use. NFS and RPC : are protocols. They have to work the same no matter what system they : run on.
Ok ... I guess BSDI uses an older implementation of RPC (I told you I didn't know much about it :) [ snip ] : : Ok, so portmap is running. Did you reboot? If not, there are a bunch : of other programs which must run other than mountd. You can get them : running by executing '/etc/init.d/netstd_nfs start' without rebooting. ... and hey presto, that works! That was easy enough ... I really should learn to look in /etc/init.d more often. Thanks. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
