NFS Bind problem

[Preet Dhillon]

Dear Colleagues,

When I run the showmount command on my HP-UX 11.00 server to query what is exported from another server, I get the following error message :

# /usr/sbin/showmount -e wilma
showmount: wilma: RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Timed out

I have stopped and restarted /sbin/init.d/nfs.core, nfs.client and nfs.server and also rebooted the system but I still get the above error when querying exports from all other servers.

Can anyone advise ?

Many thanks and regards,
Preet

[Pete Randall]

Preet,

Maybe too obvious, but I've got to ask - is Wilma up and available?

Pete

[Preet Dhillon]

Hi,

Yes, Wilma is up and running in multi-user mode. Wilma has NFS mounts from other machines mounted on it and when I run the command
showmount -e wilma I see a list of exported filesystems so all looks OK from the Wilma side.

Regards,
Preet

[Kevin Wright]

What does rpcinfo -p show on your nfs server, wilma? Is mountd and nfsd running on it? Probably so, but the issue here is a timed out error, are you having network trouble, going through a firewall or something like that?

[Preet Dhillon]

Hi Kevin,

rpcinfo -p shows the following among others :

100005 1 udp 51988 mountd
100005 3 udp 51988 mountd
100005 1 tcp 51005 mountd
100005 3 tcp 51005 mountd
100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
100003 3 udp 2049 nfs

Is there a distinction between nfsd and nfs as it appears above ?

[S.K. Chan]

The rpc timed out could also indicate that the server is having problem resolving the hostname "wilma". See if the entry "wilma" is in the /etc/rmtab file. Also test with nslookup of the hostname and IP address.

[Kevin Wright]

I would suggest running snoop on wilma, then trying to mount the exported filesystem and see where it errors out.

[Govind]

Hey Preet
Check your /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file on the client you are having the issue, the NFS_CLIENT should be set to "1" and START_MOUNTD should also be set to "1". also check to see if rpc.mountd is running on the server. After you set both the above variables to 1 try stopping and starting /sbin/init.d/nfs.client on wilma.
Govind

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,
Is the rpcbind daemon running in both servers ?
#ps -ef | grep rpcbind
If not start the daemon
#rpcbind

regards,
U.SivaKumar