by Hello
I have installed Red Hat 6.0 to two PCs and am having problems with NFS.
When mounting the remote file system from either end, I get an RPC time out
error. The network connection is alright as ping, FTP and telnet work fine.
I have read as much documentation as I can get my hands on and performed
the following tasks accordingly: I have placed the relevant entries into
/etc/exports and run exportfs with the relevant switches. I have issued the
mount command with the relevant switches and options.
I have grepped the output from the ps command and confirmed that portmap
and rpc.mountd are running on both machines, however, the output
information for nfsd does not look very encouraging. Each line for nfsd
contains a whole lot of zeroes and the string nfsd appears in square
brackets (e.g. [nfsd]). There is also an rpciod that appears the same way.
I tried the rpcinfo -p command, but there is no mention of nfs in the
output. I tried running /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd manually, but get the error
message "nfssvc:Address already in use". I tried "killall -HUP
/usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd" but this produced "no process killed".
HELP!!!
TIA
David