WalMart / Lindows Evaluation

[Nathan England]

rpc.portmap has to be functioning on the lindows machine as well for it to map 
the drive...

try running /sbin/rpc.portmap or where ever it may be.

Also, if you have DNS setup internally, and all static IP's, your lindows may 
not be reverse mapping correctly.

nathan

On Monday 21 October 2002 10:56 am, Ed Skinner wrote:
>     The server system ("xxx") uses a hard-assigned IP but, when browsing
> the web from that system, everything behaves normally. Also, I can telnet
> into that system from elsewhere (including the Lindows machine). I presume
> those successes mean the server system has its DNS and rpc.portmap stuff
> appropriately configured.
>      I tried the NFS mount from a different client system (RH 7.2) to the
> same server and it worked fine. Only the Lindows machine has the
> slow-completing mount which appears to take four minutes.
>
> On Monday 21 October 2002 10:07 am, you wrote:
> > Sounds like rpc.portmap isn't started, or not started correctly.
> >
> > Is your machine seeing DNS correctly with itself and others on your lan?
> >
> > nathan
> >
> > > Minuses
> > >      "mount -t nfs xxx:/opt/music /music" took several minutes to
> > > complete. Not sure why but, once it finished, accesses to /music
> > > appeared to go normally with no untoward delays. (System xxx runs
> > > RedHat 7.1 with a 2.4.9-34 RedHat built kernel.)
> >
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