Thanks to all. It turned out that I had done all the nfs stuff correctly, but I had selected the wrong driver for my rtl8139 card. I learned this when I thought to try to ping the new server from my test box. I should write myself an Avoid Dumb Mistakes HOWTO.
The Debian install program said that the driver I chose installed OK. Turns out rtl8139-scyld doesn't really work for me, but 8139too does. On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:10:10AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Mon, June 23 at 5:11 PM EDT > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I copy exports, hosts.allow, and hosts.deny from the old > > server to the new, and restart the daemons. Then I attempt > > to mount newserver:/home from the working client. > > > > I get an error message: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /cmn > > mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive > > > > What does this mean? And how do I fix it? > > There may be different packages needed if you aren't used to woody. I > am on unstable and here are the ones I used: > ii nfs-common 1.0.3-1 NFS support files common to client and > serve > ii nfs-user-serve 2.2beta47-15 User space NFS server. > > Maybe you installed nfs-kernel-server instead and the kernel isn't > configured for it? I used nfs-user-server and setup was trivial as you > describe above. I'll assume you can ping each other, by hostname? > > Shawn Lamson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
