Remote file sharing

[T G Manikandan]

Whenever I mount a file system of Solaris from HPUx machine I get an error"RPC Program not registered".
Can someone help me in solving the problem.

Thanks.
Manikandan

[Tommy Palo · Accepted solution]

Is your Sun machine set up as an NFS server?
Check /etc/dfs/dfstab.

Is your HP machine set up as an NFS client?
Check /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf, set NFS_CLIENT=1 and run "/sbin/init.d/nfs.client start"

[Frederic Soriano]

Hi,

Normally, the "RPC Program not registered" error means that NFS service is not enabled on your NFS server (your Sun box).

On your HP-UX box, try this:
rpcinfo -p

If it gives an output, then portmapper (or rpcbind) is started, and you should see all registered RPC services. Have a look at programs number 100003 (nfs) and 100005 (mountd, which handle remote NFS mount requests), by grep'ing the above command output.

If no answer, then your NFS daemons might be down: ensure that you effectively NFS-exported a filesystem by looking at the contents of files /etc/dfs/sharetab and /etc/dfs/dfstab and restart daemons with /etc/init.d/nfs.server start, on your Sun box. Retry your mount request from your HP box and everything should run OK.

I hope this helps.

Best regards.

Fred.