RPC: Program not registered

[Logic]

Hello All,

I am after some help, probably something very simple, I am trying to mount a disk on a remote computer using the following command

mount vecfs:/shrek /shrek

Where vecfs is the remote computer and /shrek is the file system.

I keep getting a message back saying mount: RPC: Program not registered

I am running RedHat 9

Any advice or suggestions?

Thanks in Advance

[SpookyEddy]

Is this using nfs? You need to set the FS type I should think.

Also check that the portmap and nfs services are running and that you hvae no firewalls in the way.

Regards

ed

[Logic]

I am quite new to all of this!!! How do I check if the portmap and nfs services are running?

Some more info.

I have two RedHat 9 machines which are connected to a 8 port switch, there is nothing else on the switch. On one of the machines there is a 250GB Software RAID which is mounted as /shrek

I would like to mount that disk array on to the other RedHat machine (vectayn2) but I keep getting the RPC message.

Both machines are in eachothers hosts files and I have also added the whole batch of IP addresses to the /etc/hosts.allow file on the machine with /shrek (vecfs) on it.

I should let you know that I am using IP addresses of 10.0.0.* with a netmask of 255.255.255.0 (I am not sure if that makes a difference)

Thanks in advance

[quux]

check if nfs is running on the machine from where to mount nfs-share:

ps aux | grep rpc -> rpc..mountd etc. should show
ps aux | grep nfs -> nfsd should show

use the command

<control-panel &>

to automagically have portmap and nfs started.

you can fall back to manually do /etc/rc.d/init..d/portmap start
or
/etc/rc.d/init..d/nfs start

A perhaps interesting and also security-concerned related article is
here

CC.

[Logic]

Thanks for the advice, I have now mounted the File System, it seem that alough the rpc service had started the nfs service hadn't.

Thanks again for the advice