Problems with Automount

[Jason Morgan]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 05:01:40PM +0400, Daniel Sammut wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am fairly new to FreeBSD having only used it for about a month. I am
> using FreeBSD 5.4 release.
> 
> I have recently got round to setting up amd. I followed the instructions
> to do this on a website I found -
> http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd/automounting.txt
> 
> 
> After following the instructions, and rebooting the machine, I notice
> that my logs give these messages:
> 
> 
> nfs send error 49 for server pid357 at freya:/host
> nfs server pid357 at freya:/host: not responding
> 
> 
> and typing "amq" gives this message:
> 
> amq: localhost: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to send
> 
> 
> I double checked my setup of amd, and that I followed the instructions
> exactly. Everything seems correct. 
> 
> I have actually set up amd successfully using the same instructions on
> another computer on which I installed FreeBSD 5.4. 
> 
> What do you think the problem could be?
> 

Are your trying to automount an NFS server? Are you sure you have /etc/exports
set up correctly on the NFS server to allow access from the client in question?

-Jason