On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 03:23:36PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:

> On Jan 19 13:02:33, David Coppa wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Giridhari <giridh...@live.com.au> wrote:
> > > HELO.
> > >
> > > I am following http://openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#NFS  and have the server
> > > running, and showmount shows an export but on the client when I get to the
> > > line in the faq
> > >
> > > # mount -t nfs 10.0.0.1:/work /mnt
> > >
> > > and adapt it to the setup I have here I get the message
> > >
> > > RPC: Program not registered
> > >
> > >
> > > I did a bit of searching but couldnb t find anything for OpenBSD about
> > this.
> > > Everything else in the faq has worked fine.
> > > What am I doing wrong?
> > 
> > You need to start portmap on the clients
> 
> Mounting NFS Filesystems
> 
>       NFS filesystems can be mounted from a client
>       without needing to enable any services or daemons.

Indeed, portmap does nto need to run on a client.

Check if nfs, mountd and portmap are running on the server.  The
section on rpcinfo in the FAQ gives a clue how to check that from a
client. 

        -Otto

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