NFS setup

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

n dhert <ndhertbsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> I try to set up NFS between two freebsd-8.1 systems.
...
> # ps -jaxw | grep rpcbind
> root         747     1   747   747    0 Ss    ??    0:00.01
> /usr/sbin/rpcbind
...
> client# mount server.subdomain.topdomain:/home /mnt
>    (or client# mount XXX.YYY.ZZZ.SSS:/home /mnt)
> hangs, and after trying for about a minute, responds
> [tcp] server.subdomain.topdomain:/home: RPCPROG_NFS: RPC:
> Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out
>
> what is missing to make this work?

Any chance a firewall is blocking RPC?