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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: mountd/portmap/NFS problem
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In article <1992Nov5.175351.26079@cs.brown.edu>, lr@cs.brown.edu (Luigi Rizzo) writes:
|> 
|> It must be something trivial but... I installed 386bsd 0.1 on a
|> 486-33 with IDE drive, we8013-clone ethernet with no problems.
|> Everything including the network seems to work (at least, ftp, telnet,
|> rsh  work fine and quickly in both directions). However, when I try to
|> boot with the nfs-related stuff enabled (portmap, mountd etc.) mountd
|> hangs without being able to register with portmap. If I press ^C on the
|> console during boot, things proceed more or less regul;arly and the
|> system comes up (the only thing is, mountd takes most of CPU time).
|> Other things (nfsd, nfsiod) apparently register correctly (as shown by
|> using rpcinfo from another machine).  Now, I cannot either NFS-mount
|> the 386 disk from another machine (clearly because mountd does not
|> work, the error message is
|> 
|> nfs_mount: bsd386a:/ server not responding: rpc program not registered
|> 
|> or mount other disks on the 386bsd machine. (this time the error
|> message is 
|> 
|> Bad MNT RPC: RPC: Authentication error; why = Invalid client credential
|> 
|> 
|> I haven't installed the crypt routines or any of the patches yet,
|> because from the descriptions I have it's not clear which ones
|> apply to my problem. Any help from the net ?

Install the NFS and mount patches at the very least.  You seem to be running
into the overlap and reserved port problems.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
					terry_lambert@novell.com
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