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Re: Portmapper?

On Thursday, May 31, 2001, at 05:39 PM, 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.

This means that the "myntbox" system is not running the portmap service.

> 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.

The portmap daemon is started on a Darwin / Mac OS X system from the
/System/Library/StartupItems/Portmap/Portmap script.

- Allan

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



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