[svlug] nfs error: RPC timed out

[Rafael]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Galen Wilkerson wrote:

> 
> Ok, so I am nfs-mounting a few directories from one linux box to another.
> 
> the /var/spool/mail directory mounts fine, but when it tries to automount
> the /home and /home2 directories, it times out with the following error:
> 
> mount: RPC: Timed out
> 
> on the remote machine, the /etc/exports file looks fine, and on the
> machine doing the mounting, the fstab file looks fine too.
> 
> Ideas, thoughts?

What's the 

rpcinfo -p remote

saying?

For example I have NFS server penguin
> rpcinfo -p penguin
   program vers proto   port
    100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
    100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
    100021    1   udp   1024  nlockmgr
    100021    3   udp   1024  nlockmgr
    100007    2   udp    632  ypbind
    100007    1   udp    632  ypbind
    100007    2   tcp    635  ypbind
    100007    1   tcp    635  ypbind
    100024    1   udp   1025  status
    100024    1   tcp   1026  status
    100011    1   udp    784  rquotad
    100011    2   udp    784  rquotad
    100005    1   udp   1041  mountd
    100005    1   tcp   1027  mountd
    100005    2   udp   1041  mountd
    100005    2   tcp   1027  mountd
    100003    2   udp   2049  nfs

Can you hard mount the same directory?

And of course ou need all the necessary NFS daemons running.

SEE ALSO
     inetd.conf((5)),  rpcinfo((8)),  pmap_set((8)),  pmap_dump((8)),  in
     etd((8)) tcpd((8)) hosts_access((5)) hosts_options((5))

> 
> -Galen


Rafael