Connection refusal for an NFS mount

[Erik Norgaard]

David Landgren wrote:
> Short of rebooting the server, how do I reinitialise the NFS layers? 
> Does the following order sound sane?
> 
> /etc/rc.d/mountd stop
> /etc/rc.d/nfsd stop
> /etc/rc.d/rpcbind stop
> 
> ... and the the same again with start in the reverse order?

rpcbind must be started first in order for mountd and nfsd to register 
with it correctly. You can force mountd to bind to a specific port, then 
it should(?) also be possible to get things working without rpcbind.

You need only to restart mountd when you change your exports file.

Cheers, Erik
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