Thanks to everyone who mentioned that NetBSD defaults to requiring
privileged ports for NFS and SunOS defaults the other way.  Since I'm
joining an already established configuration, I need to use unprivileged
ports.

I've put the -n option into the mountd startup but still have problems.
(PS: the /etc/exports options to use unprivileged ports are not processed
by mountd in stock 1.3 NetBSD-sparc and cause mountd to log an error.)

After the client SunOS machine attempts to mount, showmount on the NetBSD
server shows the client connected; however, running "ps -aux | grep nfs"
does not show any nfsd processes running.

Attempting to start nfsd by hand gets a "can't bind udp address" error.

Is there a method for determining who has what UDP / TCP sockets open?  It
looks like nfsd isn't starting because it's UDP socket is open by someone
else.  Thanks to all...

Steven G.




>Hello,
>  I'm trying to use a SS1 runing NetBSD 1.3 as a NFS server.  The NFS
>client is a SS10 running SunOS 4.1.3.  It works fine with NetBSD as the
>client but with NetBSD as the server, the SunOS mount command never
>returns, the SunOS console reports the NetBSD server as not responding, and
>any attempt to do a file operation on the mount-point causes the SunOS
>system to grind to a sort-of halt (can't login, ls, etc but Open Windows is
>still running.)
>
>  I've enabled nfs client and server in /etc/rc.conf on the NetBSD box and
>put the file systems I want exported in /etc/exports.  Is there anything
>else I need to do?
>
>Thanks.
>



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