[NTLUG:Discuss] Basic NFS question

[Alex D. Coker]

And the winner is...MadHat with the following suggestion.

Now I'd like to understand the 'Why' in all this. I did a ps -A and saw portmap
running on the client. Why did it need to be started again?


MadHat wrote:

> nfs in the init.d directory starts nfsd and mountd and exportfs
>
> It just sounds like your portmapper isn't getting started.
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap start
>
> On both client and server, then try again.  That is how the NFS boxes
> talk to connect.
>
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