On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 10:10:44AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
-> I have been able to nfs mount the root partition of a computer for over a
-> year with no problems. Recently, power went out, affecting both of the
-> computers involved, causing both to die a horrible death. As I was not
-> around at the time, I don't know what error messages were shown when the
-> machines rebooted.
->
-> The error message I now get is:
->
-> root@charlesc # mount /mnt/server/
-> mount: RPC: Program not registered
->
-> charlesc's fstab contains:
->
-> server:/ /mnt/server nfs timeo=14,intr,noauto 0 0
->
-> server's /etc/exports is:
->
-> [ccurley@server ccurley]$ cat /etc/exports / charlesc(no_root_squash)
->
-> also on server:
->
-> [ccurley@server ccurley]$ cat /etc/rpc | grep -i nfs
-> nfs 100003 nfsprog
-> rpcnfs 100116 na.rpcnfs
-> nfs_acl 100227
-> pcnfsd 150001
-> bwnfsd 545580417
->
-> Any brilliant ideas out there?
I finally solved this problem. the most useful resource turned out to be a
checklist in a recent version of the NFS HOW-TO, at
ttp://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO-7.html.
It turned out in my case that the problem was incorrect syntax in the
/etc/hosts.allow file that was preventing rpc from accepting requests.
Another item not mentioned in the HOW-TO above is that the /etc/exports
file does not allow tabs; white space must be spaces, not tabs. This may
apply to other files as well.
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