Connection refusal for an NFS mount

[David Kelly]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 07:43:16PM +0200, David Landgren wrote:
> David Kelly wrote:
> >
> >For starters try "showmount -e the.freebsd.ip.address" on the Linux box
> >to see if the Linux box sees the NFS daemons on the FreeBSD machine.
> 
> Hrm.
> 
> # showmount -e 172.17.0.21
> mount clntudp_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive

I don't think NFS is going to work until you can get past the above
problem. Running "showmount -e" on your FreeBSD machine should display
the essential contents of /etc/exports.

What does the FreeBSD machine have to say about your attempts to connect
from Linux in /var/log/messages?

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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