[rhn-users] portmap failure

Alfred Hovdestad alfred.hovdestad at usask.ca
Wed Apr 6 21:56:00 UTC 2005


The first thing to check is iptables (firewall).  What does

# iptables -L

return?

     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.
> 
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