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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!caen!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Re: NFS mounting on FreeBSD Question Distribution: inet Message-ID: <CyEH27.BDG@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (System Operator) Organization: Internet Direct, indirect.com Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 20:32:31 GMT References: <wilsonm.3.2EB00EE5@dale.hsc.unt.edu> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 22 Mike Wilson (wilsonm@dale.hsc.unt.edu) wrote: : I am attempting to NFS mount another machine to my FreeBSD 1.1.5 machine. : Here is the command I use: : mount -t nfs site.name.here:/sys/users/pub /mnt : Here is the error I get : : NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered : Do I need to re-compile the kernel for something? If not could it be the : remote site? Thanks for any info. It sounds like your NFS server may not be started correctly. There is usually some code in the network startup that determines whether or not you're going to be an NFS server, and if so starts up portmapper, mountd, etc. Use showmount(8) on the client machine to determine if the server is actually exporting anything to you. Wes Peters