[rhn-users] RedHat, NFS and RPC failure

[Corné Beerse]

Marko Macesic wrote:
>     Greetings,
> I have a problem with my RedHat 8.0 on kernel 2.4.18 
> I've made a local network and I want to share some files over NFS. My 
> LAN is working fine (I tested it with ifconfig, route, ping and 
> netstat). I've set up NFS server by starting NFS service and changing 
> /etc/exports file according to HOWTO_NFS I read. Also on my client 
> machines I've checked for portmaper and rpc.statd which are all started, 
> again accordingly to HOWTO_NFS. Then I appended /etc/fstab with 
> the following line:
> 192.168.0.1:/directory_name  /mnt/nfs  nfs  rw,hard,intr  0  0
> At last I tried to mount that directory on client machine over NFS but I 
> always get this error message:
> *mount: RPC:Portmapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive*

Might need to start the nfs-server. For now: `/etc/init.d/nfs start` and for 
after the next boot: `chkconfig nfs on`. The same for "nfslock".

Maybe `/etc/init.d/nfs restart` is needed to re-read the exports file.

What does `exportfs` say?

Is there a firewall active?

>  
> How can I resolve this? I've searched man pages for exports, rpc, mount 
> and found nothing similar. Also I've searched bugzilla on RedHat.com and 
> there wasn't reported anything like that. I have only found some similar 
> problems over www.google.com/linux <http://www.google.com/linux> but 
> there wasn't NFS nor mount involved. In those cases some other services 
> posted this RPC error and the only solution was to install and 
> compile new NIS files.
>  
> If someone knows the solution please explain to me what can be done. If 
> there isn't any solution because it is some kind of nasty bug please 
> tell me what kernel or services I have to install additionaly so that 
> NFS can work properly.
>  
> Thanks,
> M. Marko
> 
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