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NFS problems

i get the following error when i try to mount my share:

root@23# mkdir /export/home/test_nfs
root@23# mount 19:/export/home/test_nfs /export/home/test_nfs
nfs mount:19: : RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Unable to receive
nfs mount: retrying: /export/home/test_nfs
nfs mount:19: : RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Unable to receive

root@23# ps -ef | grep nfs
daemon 502 1 0 Mar 09 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/nfs/statd
root 501 1 0 Mar 09 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/nfs/lockd
root 1659 1629 0 09:57:25 pts/1 0:00 grep nfs

NFS Server config:
root@19# ./nfs.server start
root@c19# share
- /export/home/test_nfs ro ""
root@19# ps -ef | grep nfs
root 2288 2174 0 09:56:59 pts/1 0:00 grep nfs
root 2284 1 0 09:56:14 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/nfs/nfsd
root@19# share
- /export/home/test_nfs ro ""
root@19# more /etc/dfs/dfstab

# Place share(1M) commands here for automatic execution
# on entering init state 3.
#
# Issue the command '/etc/init.d/nfs.server start' to run the NFS
# daemon processes and the share commands, after adding the very
# first entry to this file.
#
# share [-F fstype] [ -o options] [-d "<text>"] <pathname> [resource]
# .e.g,
# share -F nfs -o rw=engineering -d "home dirs" /export/home2
share -F nfs -o ro /export/home/test_nfs

neteducation

Is your server really only called 19 ?

I could imagine mount is trying to access a machine at 0.0.0.19

try mounting with the ip-address to see if it's about that

mount 192.168.0.10:/export/home/test_nfs /export/home/test_nfs

Traverse-61

ASKER

No the actuall hostname is much longer. I figured out the problem. NFS needs RPC.

Kill all NFS services. Start RPC. Re-enable NFS. Works just fine.

Thanks,

Trav.

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Traverse-61

ASKER

Thanks neteducation, for trying to help out, but I found the solution, See my comments above regarding NFS and RPC. You get the points for responding.

neteducation

I was thinking about the RPC thing too, but the error message was more like the ip-problem.

Funny thing aside: I'm teaching a course this week... and this afternoon I was telling my students about how RPC works, and tomorrow I'll tell them how NFS works. So good timing for your question :-)

Thanks for the point anyway. maybe this "solution" will help somebody else :)