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From: bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS Problem
Date: 28 Apr 1997 14:07:07 GMT
Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
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Bill Gunshannon (bill@cs.uofs.edu) wrote:
> I tried bringing up NFS between two NetBSD 1.2 boxes.  When I do a 
> "showmount -e" it says the file is exported properly but if I try to 
> mount it all I get is a really long wait and eventually a "NFS Server
> not responding" message.  And there appears to be no way to kill the 
> mount_nfs command at this point either requiring that the machine be
> rebooted to clear it.  Is there something beyond the setting in netstart
> needed to start NFS??
> 

You need to have both nfsd and mountd running. Please check that they
are running on your server.
If they are running, can you post the result of "showmount -e <server>"
run on the client, and the command you use to mount ?

-- 
Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI.
email: bouyer@masi.ibp.fr
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