Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2002 16:36 schrieb Markus Gaugusch:
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Who said the following paragraph? You should not delete that.
Another problem: NFS! When I try to mount a directory via nfs, the fileserver [...] on the client side, the mount command needs a loooong time to exit. When I
You need to start portmap (rcportmap start) on client side (enable it in rc.config to have it running after booting).
Hi Markus, can you or somebody on this list explain to me why nfs-mounts need portmap on the client? Or is there some documentation which I oversaw? I have "Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Ed." in which RPC-based services such as nfs are described as this: server registers to portmapper ... client asks portmapper "where is nfs" portmapper responds "nfs ist on port <abcd>" ... client requests server I have googled a bit but never found a hint why portmap must be running on the client. If I don't have portmap the mount succeeds after a long time and has no further delays when accessing files. If I start portmap, mount the share, and kill portmap afterwards everything seems to do work. Can someone enlighten me, please? Peter