pcnfs problem on 11.00

[james gould]

Trying to connect to unix server running
11.00. PC user tries to connect to unix
server using pcnfs. The user receives the
following message "RPC request has timed out
no reply." start_mountd=1 and PCNFS_SERVER=1
are both set.

The following is what the user does on pc:

Press CTL-ALT-DEL to get login screen.
Enter Network password, press OK
NFS LOGIN dialog box appears. I enter in my username and password and the server name. I hit OK and after about 15 seconds it returns another dialog box that says

An RPC request has timed out - no reply

If I use anonymous as the user name and no password, I click OK and it proceeds to connect to the drives on the boxes that I previously set up.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi James,

Try these two links,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=f44433901372b7f59d/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000015504805

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=f44433901372b7f59d/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000048194543

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

You would need to enable the PC-NFS *server* on the HP-UX box by setting PCNFS_SERVER=1 in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf (assuming you have a 10.x or 11.x box) and running '/sbin/init.d/nfs.server restart' (probably shouldn't do this with users on the system, though).The man page for 'pcnfsd' should be a good starting point.

Depending on exactly what your needs are, using Samba ( http://www.samba.org ) or CIFS/9000 (basically the same thing, but distributed and supported by HP) instead might just save you a lot of headache, at the expense of a little extra administrative effort on the server side. Samba is a filesharing suite that allows you to serve files to Windows PC clients using the same protocols as regular Windows Networking

Goodluck,
-USA..

[T G Manikandan]

Hello,

I am using Hummingbird.
/*
One of the main causes for this error message is the portmapper daemon not responding or is not running on the host. To confirm, logon to the server console and use the rpcinfo utility to verify that the portmapper is the cause.

The portmapper services is known as
rpcbind
rpc.portmap
portmapper
*/

[Wodisch]

Hello,

why not using CIFS/9000 server on the HP box? It is supported, the PC would not need any additional software or configuration, and it works...

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch