From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Exportfs does not accept Knoppix /ramdisk/home
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:29:33 +1000
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To: Larry Alkoff <labradley@mindspring.com>
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On Tuesday June 14, labradley@mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> 
> The good news - I tried your line exactly as above and
> exportfs -rav
> worked as expected.

Excellent.

> 
> Bad news - for some reason I'm getting the error message:
> Mounting knoppix
> mount: RPC: Remote system error - No route to host
> 

maybe portmap is being run with "-i 127.0.0.1", meaning "only listen
on the loopback interface".
If so, try running as just plain "portmap".

> I've seen that before but it was always fixed by making sure
> portmap, nfsd, mountd and statd were running.
> 
> They are running on both machines except that on knoppix it's
> just "portmap" and on my normal Slackware machine it's "RPC.portmap" 
> plus a new one "RPC.quotad".

The name differences are purely cosmetic.

> 
> It's been a while since I fooled with nfs.  Do I need entries in
> fstab?

No.

NeilBrown


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