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From: Didier Derny <didier@aida.remcomp.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: problems with mountd
Date: 28 May 1995 12:10:35 +0100
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larry@indirect.com (Larry Battraw) wrote:
>		Hello all....
>
>	I've been playing with FreeBSD (2.0), and have been having some problems 
>trying to mount the local drive on Sun workstations over the net.  As I 
>understand it, the daemon mountd is required, but whenever I try to start it, 
>it gives me something like "error [258] cannot register mountd"; similarly, 
>another net program (can't remember which) says it can't register with the udp 
>portmap.   Mounting other machines' drives works great, I just can't get mine 
>to mount.  Any ideas?
>
>
>Larry Battraw
>(cicdphx@indirect.com)

modify your /etc/netstart file

replace
nfs_server=NO 
by
nfs_server=YES

install a /etc/exports file
and reboot your system.

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