On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Scott J. Geertgens wrote:
> > > >> I keep getting the following message when trying to NFS mount any of the > > >> exported filesystems. > > >> > > >> mount clntupd_create: RPC: Program not registered > > >> > > > > > >Check that on the nfs server that mountd is running. This one is usually > > >NOT started from inetd but instead is started from one of the rc files > > > > > I realize this is most likely the correct answer, but I will add > another solution just for the sake of completeness. At one point I _did_ > have all the correct daemons running (nfsd, mountd), and still came up > with this error. It turned out that I had fiddled around with > /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny too much and shut off nearly > everything. This generates the same error as not having mountd running. > Wonderfully descriptive :) My 2 cents' worth on this one is that my (new) system had full NFS capability until I installed the netstd package, at which point I got the above message. Poking around showed that /etc/init.d/netstd__nfs had all 5 of the _start_ lines commented out. I am a Unix dumbkov but uncommenting the nsfd and mountd lines got things going again. This may not be the way to fix it. HTH Lindsay