[NTLUG:Discuss] Basic NFS question

[MadHat]

"Alex D. Coker" wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

magic?

I am not really sure.  Since not knowing what might or might not have
been changed, or wether or not it was working at any point, I could only
guess.   I just remember having the same problem at some point in time.

glad it worked.

> 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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