Re: yp and nfs not registered?
On 10 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> 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.
>
OK I got nfs mounting to work, but the yp stuff still doesn't work. I just
make hosts.allow = all and hosts.deny = "blank".
What do I have to do to add NIS to portmapper?
Thanks,
Tod Detre
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