<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Craig White</b> <<a href="mailto:craig@tobyhouse.com">craig@tobyhouse.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:48 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote:<br>> No rpc service running.<br>> # rpcinfo -p localhost<br>> rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Unknown host<br>----<br>this is a problem...what's in /etc/hosts?
<br><br>does the first 23 lines look like this?<br><br># head -n 3 /etc/hosts<br># Do not remove the following line, or various programs<br># that require network functionality will fail.<br><a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1
</a> localhost.localdomain localhost<br><br>--<br>Craig White <<a href="mailto:craig@tobyhouse.com">craig@tobyhouse.com</a>><br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com
</a><br>To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Yes. The lines in /etc/hosts are there.<br><br>So the problem got fixed. On the NFS Server I did:
<br><br> # service rpcbind start<br> # service nfs start<br> # rpcinfo -p<br> program vers proto port service<br> 100000 4 tcp 111 portmapper<br> 100000 3 tcp 111 portmapper<br> 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
<br> 100000 4 udp 111 portmapper<br> 100000 3 udp 111 portmapper<br> 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper<br> 100000 4 0 111 portmapper<br> 100000 3 0 111 portmapper
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100000 2 0 111 portmapper<br> 100003 2 udp 2049 nfs<br> 100003 3 udp 2049 nfs<br> 100003 4 udp 2049 nfs<br> 100011 1 udp 750 rquotad<br> 100011 2 udp 750 rquotad
<br> 100011 1 tcp 753 rquotad<br> 100011 2 tcp 753 rquotad<br> 100005 1 udp 32781 mountd<br> 100005 1 tcp 58372 mountd<br> 100005 2 udp 32781 mountd<br> 100005 2 tcp 58372 mountd
<br> 100005 3 udp 32781 mountd<br> 100005 3 tcp 58372 mountd<br><br>In order to allow remoteClient.com to mount from the nfs server (orion) I put<br>this line in /etc/hosts.allow:<br><br>"mountd:
nfsClient.com"<br><br>The /var/log/messages showed<br>Sep 25 16:53:36 orion mountd[3974]: authenticated mount request from nfsClient.com:893 for /scr1 (/scr1)<br><br>Note that Portmap does not work in /etc/hosts.allow no more.
<br> "portmap: nfsClient.com"<br>I tried the line above by itself and the /var/log/messages shows an error:<br>Sep 25 17:01:20 orion mountd[4079]: connect from <a href="http://10.1.7.20/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
10.1.7.20</a> to proc (1) in mountd: request from unauthorized host
<br><br>After all that trouble I was able to mount filesystems on the client side.<br>Thanks everyone for your help!<br><br>~Aldo.<br>