Fwd: [rhn-users] portmap failure

[Margaret Doll]

New notes at the bottom.

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> From: Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>
> Date: Thu Apr 7, 2005  8:18:42 AM US/Eastern
> To: Red Hat Network Users List <rhn-users at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] portmap failure
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 6, 2005, at 05:56 PM, Alfred Hovdestad wrote:
>
>> The first thing to check is iptables (firewall).  What does
>>
>> # iptables -L
>>
>> return?
>
> From the Enterprise System:
>
> # iptables -L
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
> RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  anywhere             anywhere
>
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
> RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  anywhere             anywhere
>
> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
>
> Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references)
> target     prot opt source               destination
> ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere
> ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere
> ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere           icmp any
> ACCEPT     ipv6-crypt--  anywhere             anywhere
> ACCEPT     ipv6-auth--  anywhere             anywhere
> ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere           state 
> RELATED,ESTABLISHED
> ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere           state NEW 
> tcp dpt:ftp
> ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere           state NEW 
> tcp dpt:ssh
> ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere           state NEW 
> tcp dpt:617
> REJECT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere           
> reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
>
> From the RH7,3 systems:
>
> ipchains -L
> Chain input (policy ACCEPT):
> target     prot opt     source                destination           
> ports
> icmp       icmp ------  anywhere             anywhere              any 
> ->   any
> Chain forward (policy ACCEPT):
> Chain output (policy ACCEPT):
> Chain icmp (1 references):
> target     prot opt     source                destination           
> ports
> ACCEPT     all  ------  anywhere             anywhere              n/a
>
> nmap on the Enterprise System
>
> (The 1593 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
> Port       State       Service
> 22/tcp     open        ssh
> 111/tcp    open        sunrpc
> 617/tcp    open        unknown
> 667/tcp    open        unknown
> 681/tcp    open        unknown
> 2049/tcp   open        nfs
> 6000/tcp   open        X11
> 32771/tcp  open        sometimes-rpc5
>
> nmap on the RH 7.3 system
>
> Port       State       Service
> 22/tcp     open        ssh
> 111/tcp    open        sunrpc
> 515/tcp    open        printer
> 617/tcp    open        unknown
> 820/tcp    open        unknown
> 1024/tcp   open        kdm
> 6000/tcp   open        X11
> 32770/tcp  open        sometimes-rpc3
> 32771/tcp  open        sometimes-rpc5
>
>
>
>>
>>     Alfred Hovdestad
>>
>>
>> Margaret Doll wrote:
>>> I have three systems at RH 7.3 and one system at Enterprise 3.  They 
>>> are supposed to share partitions via nsf.  The Enterprise 3 system 
>>> mounts partitions from each of the RH 7.3 systems.  The RH 7.3 
>>> systems can mount each others partitions.  However, the RH 7.3 
>>> systems cannot mount the partitions from the Enterprise system.
>>> All of them show port 111 open when I run nmap.
>>> All of them have each other's ip address in their /etc/hosts table 
>>> and /etc/hosts_allow is set correctly.
>>> # mount /uo
>>> mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive
>>> mount: backgrounding "RH-E3:/workspacer"
>>>  From the 7.3 systems:
>>> rpcinfo  -u RH-7.3 portmap
>>> program 100000 version 2 ready and waiting
>>> # rpcinfo  -u RH-E3 portmap
>>> rpcinfo: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive
>>> program 100000 is not available
>>> Any ideas why this is not working?
>>> Thanks.
>>> _____________________________________

I found from "rpcinfo -p"  that  only portmapper was running.  I  
started nfs and nfslock which started most of the rpc services.  I am 
still missing  sgi_fam and nlockmgr.   Any ideas why these have not 
started?


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