Gordon,

I'm assuming you have network access between the two systems. This can
be proven by pinging one server from the other.

You might consider using the 'showmount' command from the client, which
will tell you what filesystems can be exported.  This is a good way to
start debugging failed NFS mounts.

For instance:
showmount -e my.nsf.server

will show available mounts. See showmount(8) for more details.

Also, if the client's IP has changed, you may need to update
/etc/exports on the server.

And if all that fails... put the NFS server in a debug mode and look
closely at the log files.

- Alex

Post, Mark K wrote:
Gordon,

You need to be running portmapper on the local system, as well as the remote
system.


Mark Post


-----Original Message-----
From: Wolfe, Gordon W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Guest Lans on SLES8


As I posted to this list yesterday, I have been able to convert TCPIP communications on SLES8 under VM from VCTC over to Guest Lans.

I have Telnet, ssh, samba, ftp and apache all working happily with guest
lans.

I can't seem to get nfs to mount a location on another (SLES7 with VCTC)
server.  This is a mount that worked before going to guest lans with the
SLES8 server.

The error message I get when trying to do the NFS mount is

mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive

I had updated the following files to get guest lans to work
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-hsi0
/etc/sysconfig/network/routes
/etc/modules.conf
/etc/chandev.conf
and also the following with the new IP address:
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
/etc/samba/smb.conf
/etc/hosts
/etc/hosts.allow

It looks like rpc isn't working right.  I don't see anything in /etc/rpc
(default from SLES8 install) that would be a problem.
and if I do ps -ax | grep rpc I get
  382 ?        S      0:00 /sbin/rpc.statd
  504 ?        SW     0:00 [rpciod]
  505 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd

I'm sure I've just missed something somewhere. Anyone have any ideas?

"Great Minds discuss ideas.  Average minds discuss events.  Small minds
discuss people."  - Admiral Hyman Rickover
Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D.  (425)856-5940
VM Enterprise Servers, The Boeing Company

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