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From: vince@apollo.COSC.GOV (Vincent Poy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: nfs mounting gatekeeper
Date: 18 Nov 1995 16:16:10 -0800
Organization: Chabot Observatory & Science Center
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Message-ID: <48lt0a$3p8@apollo.COSC.GOV>
References: <199511131943.LAA06834@dtr.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.951113134127.2197D-100000@apollo.COSC.GOV> <48adtg$q3r@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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In article <48adtg$q3r@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>,
Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> wrote:
:>Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, -Vince-
:>(vince@apollo.COSC.GOV) had the courage to say:
:>
:>: On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, Brant Katkansky wrote:
:>
:>: > In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.951111220507.28217c-100000@apollo.COSC.GOV> you write:
:>: > >Hi all,
:>: > >
:>: > > Has anyone successfully NFS mounted
:>: > >gatekeeper.dec.com(ftp.digital.com) under FreeBSD?
:>: > >If so, how is it done manually and what should the /etc/fstab entry look
:>: >
:>: > It cannot be done - gatekeeper does not NFS export filesytems and in
:>: > fact does not even run a portmapper.
:>
:>: Hmmm, so that's why it doesn't work? Their README.nfs file on
:>: their ftp site seems to say they are nfs mountable or has that changed?
->
->Uh... I hate to burst all your bubbles, but gatekeeper does too run a
->portmapper, and they do too export their filesystems via NFS:
->
They do but I guess it was down when I tried it...
->[/homes/rwpaul]:atlantis{33}# rpcinfo -p gatekeeper.dec.com
-> program vers proto port
-> 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
-> 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
-> 100005 1 udp 1036 mountd
-> 100005 3 udp 1036 mountd
-> 100005 1 tcp 904 mountd
-> 100005 3 tcp 904 mountd
-> 100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
-> 100003 3 udp 2049 nfs
-> 390113 1 tcp 7937
->[/homes/rwpaul]:atlantis{34}# mount gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive /mnt
->[/homes/rwpaul]:atlantis{35}# ls /mnt
->00README-Legal-Rules-Regs contrib
->GATEWAY.DOC dev
->GATEWAY.DOC;1 etc
->GATEWAY.PS gatekeeper.home.html
->Index-byname gateway.doc
->Index-byname.Z gateway.ps
->Index-bytime home.html
->Index-bytime.Z hypertext
->README.ftp index.html
->README.nfs lost+found
->README.www private
->US-Legal-Regs-ITAR-NOTICE pub
->archive quota.group
->archive.doc quota.user
->bin rom
->[/homes/rwpaul]:atlantis{36}# umount /mnt
>[/homes/rwpaul]:atlantis{37}#
>So you guys must be doing something wrong. :)
It was that their portmapper wasn't running =)
>Note that gatekeeper's README.nfs says this:
>
>NFS access to the archive has been restored on a provisional basis.
>
>So it might have been taken down at one point, but it's running now. I
>haven't tried it in many months so I never really noticed. Last time I
>did try, I did over a 14.4K SLIP link on my machine at home. I didn't
>leave it mounted for very long. :)
Hmmm, not when I looked at the README.nfs file...
Cheers,
-Vince- vince@COSC.GOV - GUS Mailing Lists Admin - http://www.COSC.GOV/~vince
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