Re: yp and nfs not registered?

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980910171542.24012A-100000@cns02374.CNS.CWRU.Edu>,
 <detre@cns02374.CNS.CWRU.Edu> wrote:
>whenever I try to use nfs or yp on my debian 2.0 machines they complain
>about the program not being registered.
>here's what happens when I try to mount nfs:
>mount: RPC: Program not registered

Either the portmapper is not running, or your /etc/hosts.allow and
/etc/hosts.deny are too strict. If you're running with a mostly closed
config, you will need an extra entry for "portmapper", "rpc.nfsd"
and "rpc.mount" in /etc/hosts.allow.

Mike.
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