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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Greetings,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a problem with my RedHat 8.0 on kernel
2.4.18 </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>192.168.0.1:/directory_name /mnt/nfs
nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>At last I tried to mount that directory on client
machine over NFS but I always get this error message:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>mount: RPC:Portmapper failure - RPC: Unable
to receive</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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 <A
href="http://www.google.com/linux">www.google.com/linux</A> 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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>M. Marko</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>