nfs server fails to start

[J. K. Cliburn]

On 4/5/06, Bill Rees <breeze at smsonline.com> wrote:
> Ok,
>     I'm clueless.  I had nfs sharing and mounting working when running
> fc2 but now that fc4 is the os, I'm getting "FATAL: unable to load
> sunrpc" messages which is how starting up nfs fails for me.  The daemon
> starts but the mapper doesn't.  And while I'm at it, trying to build a
> kernel with this module built in is non-trivial for me as well.
>
>     So the big question is, what do I do to be able to share a directory
> from one machine to the whole world and then mount it from another
> machine (without the permission denied messages) without specifiying a
> particular user or machine?  In my situation, I've got diskless clients
> that need to mount from a well known server, but the clients have random
> names.

I'm on FC5 now, with no NFS problems at all.  Perhaps this link would
help.  http://www.brennan.id.au/19-Network_File_System.html

There may well be other guides, too, but this one showed up when I
searched fedoraforum.org.