Hi

I got the following error while trying to mount a remote directory, can 
anybody tell me what should I do to resolve it ?

Thanks
David

root> mount david-u60:/opt2/dev-tools/InstallAnywhere /opt/dev-tools
nfs mount: david-u60: : RPC: Program not registered
nfs mount: retrying: /opt/dev-tools

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:02:25 -0500, Cisco News wrote:

> I got the following error while trying to mount a remote directory, can 
> anybody tell me what should I do to resolve it ?

> root> mount david-u60:/opt2/dev-tools/InstallAnywhere /opt/dev-tools
> nfs mount: david-u60: : RPC: Program not registered
> nfs mount: retrying: /opt/dev-tools

Is rpcbind running on your client host?

How to fix it?  Tell us what version of Solaris you are using.

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:53:07 -0500, Cisco News wrote:

> 
>> Is rpcbind running on your client host?
>>
> 
> I believe that rpcbind is running on client host since I'm able to mount 
> directories on other servers ... but what's the command to check if rpcbind 
> is running ?

[~]$ ps -ef | grep rpcbind
  daemon   195     1   0   Apr 14 ?           0:00 /usr/sbin/rpcbind

Can you mount that server's shares from other client hosts?

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:31:23 -0500, Cisco News wrote:

> Nope, other client hosts cannot mount and got the same error.
> Do I need to put something in the /etc/exports.mvfs of remote server ?

If the server is a Solaris server you need to configure /etc/dfs/dfstab.
See the share_nfs(1M) man page.

Once you have the shares configured you need to start the NFS server:

# /etc/rc3.d/S15nfs.server start

local > uname -a
SunOS remote-1500 5.8 Generic_117350-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1500

remote > uname -a
SunOS david-u60 5.8 Generic_108528-27 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60

"Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:pan.2006.04.15.17.28.34.752550@yahoo.com...
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:02:25 -0500, Cisco News wrote:
>
>> I got the following error while trying to mount a remote directory, can
>> anybody tell me what should I do to resolve it ?
>
>> root> mount david-u60:/opt2/dev-tools/InstallAnywhere /opt/dev-tools
>> nfs mount: david-u60: : RPC: Program not registered
>> nfs mount: retrying: /opt/dev-tools
>
> Is rpcbind running on your client host?
>
> How to fix it?  Tell us what version of Solaris you are using.
> 

> Is rpcbind running on your client host?
>

I believe that rpcbind is running on client host since I'm able to mount 
directories on other servers ... but what's the command to check if rpcbind 
is running ?

Thanks 

Nope, other client hosts cannot mount and got the same error.
Do I need to put something in the /etc/exports.mvfs of remote server ?

Thanks

"Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:pan.2006.04.15.18.16.35.213349@yahoo.com...
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:53:07 -0500, Cisco News wrote:
>
>>
>>> Is rpcbind running on your client host?
>>>
>>
>> I believe that rpcbind is running on client host since I'm able to mount
>> directories on other servers ... but what's the command to check if 
>> rpcbind
>> is running ?
>
> [~]$ ps -ef | grep rpcbind
>  daemon   195     1   0   Apr 14 ?           0:00 /usr/sbin/rpcbind
>
> Can you mount that server's shares from other client hosts?
> 

Thanks a million Dave, that exactly resolves my problem :)

"Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:pan.2006.04.15.19.29.24.87902@yahoo.com...
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:31:23 -0500, Cisco News wrote:
>
>> Nope, other client hosts cannot mount and got the same error.
>> Do I need to put something in the /etc/exports.mvfs of remote server ?
>
> If the server is a Solaris server you need to configure /etc/dfs/dfstab.
> See the share_nfs(1M) man page.
>
> Once you have the shares configured you need to start the NFS server:
>
> # /etc/rc3.d/S15nfs.server start
> 

Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> writes:

>On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:02:25 -0500, Cisco News wrote:

>> I got the following error while trying to mount a remote directory, can 
>> anybody tell me what should I do to resolve it ?

>> root> mount david-u60:/opt2/dev-tools/InstallAnywhere /opt/dev-tools
>> nfs mount: david-u60: : RPC: Program not registered
>> nfs mount: retrying: /opt/dev-tools

>Is rpcbind running on your client host?

It is because that's how you get "RPC: Program not registered"; but there's
no NFS server running.

Casper