NFS problems

[Duston, Hal]

Shannon,

Try feeding google "RPC: Program not registered"  It gives you a number of 
things to try.  

Check /etc/hosts.access, and /etc/hosts.deny.
Check the rpc.bynumber NIS map.
Etc,

Hal

I am Spartacus [mailto:spartacus at home.aafp.org] wrote:
> showmount shows the export properly.  when i try to mount it from the unix

> host, i get "RPC: Program not registered, retrying..."  then it just sits 
> there retrying and never succeeding.  any ideas?
> 
> Gerald Combs wrote:
> > Also, the showmount command (particularly 'showmount -e') is helpful in
> > determining what's being shared and what's not on a server.
> > 
> > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Michael wrote:
> > > 
> > >   
> > > Are you running the NFS services from the Linux box? Have you tried
> > > mounting the files your Linux box is serving to another point on the
same
> > > box (just to verify it is running)? NFS on Linux is sort of a pain and
the
> > > documentation is sort of shabby so don't feel to bad if it doesn't
work at
> > > first try. ;)
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, I am Spartacus wrote:
> > > > I hope someone can help me with this.  I have a network of mostly
Unix
> > > > (Solaris) and a couple of Linux servers (Redhat 7.2).  One of the
Unix
> > > > servers runs our logfile analysis software and analyzes the logs on
all
> > > > of the other servers.  It accesses the other server logs via NFS
mount
> > > > points.  The Unix-to-Unix NFS stuff works fine, but I can't seem to
> > > > mount a Linux NFS export on my Unix server.  The NFS-related
commands
> > > > are somewhat different between the two platforms and I am much more
> > > > familiar with the Solaris side of things.  Can someone help me out
here?
> > > >  How do I verify that I have the necessary daemons running on the
Linux
> > > > box?   How can I see what is currently being shared via NFS on the
Linux
> > > > box?  I know how to mount the shares on the Unix box, but right now
the
> > > > Unix box can't see that anything is being shared from Linux.  I know
I
> > > > am missing something.  Help?