Jerome Lyles
I'm having trouble setting up NFS between two Suse 9.0 boxes. One is set up as the server and one is set up as the client. When I use Yast runlevel editor:details (expert mode) to start the nfs client I get this error message:
/etc/init.d/nfs start returned 1 (unspecified error):
Importing Net File System (NFS)mount: RPC: Program not registered ..failed
It means mountd is not registered by portmapper on the NFS server. IMHO the portmap process must run both on the NFS client and the server. The following is from SUSE 8.2: # /usr/sbin/rpcinfo -p server program vers proto port 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper 100024 1 udp 32768 status 100024 1 tcp 32768 status 100021 1 udp 32769 nlockmgr 100021 3 udp 32769 nlockmgr 100021 4 udp 32769 nlockmgr 100003 2 udp 2049 nfs 100003 3 udp 2049 nfs 100005 1 udp 32770 mountd 100005 1 tcp 32769 mountd 100005 2 udp 32770 mountd 100005 2 tcp 32769 mountd 100005 3 udp 32770 mountd 100005 3 tcp 32769 mountd # /usr/sbin/rpcinfo -p client program vers proto port 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper 100021 1 udp 32768 nlockmgr 100021 3 udp 32768 nlockmgr 100021 4 udp 32768 nlockmgr
When you start nfs clients using Yast doesn't it just work?
Yes and no. For instance a firewall may block the ports. -- A.M.