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Re: Portmapper?

At 10:39 PM +0100 5/31/01, ian wrote:
>I have been trying to run an NFS client on my MacOS X machine without
>success, (pointing at a Putty NFS daemon on my NT box). I *think* the
>reason is that I am not running the portmapper service. When I do this
>on my Mac:
>
>mount_nfs myntbox:/mynfsshare mymacfolder
>
>I get an error message saying:
>
>NFS Portmap: RPPC: Program not registered.
>
>
>I've looked in hostconfig, rc.boot and inetd.conf and can't find any
>reference to portmap. There is a portmap man entry but it is as delphic
>as most man entries and doesn't actually say what you have to do to get
>it running.
>
>Any illumination much appreciated.


Portmapper is definately running on your Mac OS X system because NetInfo requires it to work. I'd check that it is running correctly on your NFS server. You can use rpcinfo to probe the portmapper on the client and server.

try

rpcinfo -p myntbox

See:

http://dell5.ma.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?rpcinfo+8

-pmb

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 >Portmapper? (From: ian <email@hidden>)



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