Re: rpc.mountd times out (hamm)
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.
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