Need help getting NFS running

Joe Bradley gb7 at prism.gatech.EDU
Tue Aug 22 22:38:57 AEST 1989


I'm having problems getting 386/ix NFS to talk from my machine to the server
which is a MAC IIcx running Apple's A/UX. Several other A/UX machines are
already talking to the server so the problem most likely is on my end.
The correct permissions have been set in the server's /etc/exports file.

The node name of the server is nfsmac. When I try to mount the server's
disk I get the following response:

    mount -f NFS nfsmac:/users_disk /users_disk

        mount: invalid fs type <NFS>

I have a /users_disk directory on my machine for the mount point.
There's a section in the NFS Administration manual which shows the
possible errors that can be received when a mount is attempted,
naturally this isn't one of them.

The portmapper on the server seems to be running fine as the following shows:

    rpcinfo -p nfsmac

        program vers proto   port
         100003    2   udp   2049  nfs
         100012    1   udp   1037  sprayd
         100002    1   udp   1039  rusersd
         100002    2   udp   1039  rusersd
         100005    1   udp   1042  mountd
         100008    1   udp   1044  walld
         100001    1   udp   1046  rstatd
         100001    2   udp   1046  rstatd

When I issue a showmount command for the server it fails:

    showmount -e nfsmac

         xdr_groups: xdr_bool fails
         xdr_groups: xdr_reference fails
         xdr_exportbody: xdr_reference fails
         xdr_exports: xdr_reference fails
         showmount: RPC: Can't decode result

I can rlogin to the server with no problems at all. I have followed ISC's
installation procedures exactly. Also, I am using the host-based TCP/IP.

Does anyone have any ideas??

Oh yeah, the following TCP/IP and NFS daemons are running on my machine:

     UID   PID  PPID  C    STIME TTY      TIME COMMAND
    root    94     1  0 08:23:41 ?        0:04 /etc/rwhod 
    root    82     1  0 08:23:38 ?        0:00 netsched
    root    90     1  0 08:23:41 ?        0:00 /etc/inetd 
    root    97     1  0 08:23:45 ?        0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m 
    root   136     1  0 08:24:13 ?        0:00 portmap 
    root   138     1  0 08:24:14 ?        0:00 mountd 
    root   147     1  0 08:24:15 ?        0:00 statd 
    root   142     1  0 08:24:15 ?        0:00 rexd 
    root   149     1  0 08:24:16 ?        0:00 pcnfsd -s /usr/tmp 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm getting lots of grief from
my co-workers about how they don't have any of these problems with
their MACs and A/UX :-(.
-- 
G.J. (Joe) Bradley, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332

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