At 09:40 AM 7/1/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Is portmap running? It must be running before nfs will work.
>
>-Paul
Thanks, Paul . . . I couldn't tell because rpcinfo -p wouldn't run,
either. I found out what the problem was, though. My son, who is 14, is
an NT guru of sorts. He convinced me to tell him the root password so he
could "learn" to be a UNIX sysadmin. He did a fine job! Got in there
after reading a few books and tweaked my system up a bit. A real Tim
Taylor! It just kept going down hill after my original post so I did an
all-nighter last evening and started over. Formatted the disk and reloaded
and reconfigured everything from scratch. All is back to normal, the son
is back to playing with NT, which he can re-install himself when he messes
it up. He's getting tired of the BSOD, but better him than me reloading
operating systems. I guess he should forget NT and load Linux on his own
system.
Moral of the story: Don't tell UNIX wannbees your root password.
Luckily it was in a non-production environment so it really didn't matter.
Anyhow, the problem wasn't related to PPP conflicting with NFS . . . it was
a combination of a lot of things. Thanks for the suggestion, though,
because it could very well have been portmapper not running that generated
part of the original symptoms. Regards, Paul
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