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