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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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