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From: dsimader@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca ()
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS on FreeBSD
Date: 13 Jan 1996 19:16:26 GMT
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Phillip J. Windley (windley@lal.cs.byu.edu) wrote:


: This is probably a FAQ, but I couldn't find it in the FAQ, so I'll ask it
: here.  

: When I try to start up NFS (and I could be doing this wrong since there's
: not much to guide there), I get a message that says RPC isn't registered.
: Do I need to pay Sun a rolyalty or something to get the code to do NFS or
: is this message not really saying what it means?

: basically: how do you start up NFS on this thing?
: -- 
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you have to start the 'rpc.portmap' first.
make sure you also have the file rpc in /etc
which lists the services.


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