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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: Help! Having trouble mounting nfs on FreeBSD Message-ID: <1994Aug27.192047.11483@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <cam2-2608941003120001@yod.cit.cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 1994 19:20:47 GMT Lines: 27 Christopher A. Manly (cam2@cornell.edu) wrote: : Hello all, : I've got FreeBSD finally running on my poor PS/2. (It's a dog, but running : FreeBSD on it is much more interesting than DOS.) However, since it's : only got 80 meg of disk space, I really need to be able to mount parts of : my SPARC's disk for more space. : When I try to mount it, though, I get the following error: : NFS Portmap: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out : Any ideas what's causing the timeout, and/or how I can fix it? This might be a spurious answer, but I seem to vaguely remember this from early 386bsd 0.1 days. I kind of think it was something stupid like root being in more than 8 groups. Try doing a "groups root" and if there are more than eight showing this might be it. If not then I don't know. Steve -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- stever@babbage.cba.csuohio.edu "What's better than a free OS?" " A free OS with source." FreeBSD at freebsd.cdrom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------