Broken NFS server (or client?)

Mark Street jet at sonic.net
Wed Aug 8 20:41:02 PDT 2001


Do you have portmapper running?  Is it started before nfsutils?

At 06:42 PM 8/8/2001 -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
>I am trying to set up a netbooting Linux server for a high school that is 
>trying to set up a Windows 2000 Server to manage their entire network 
>(just in case the Windows server doesn't work correctly, as usual).  I 
>seem to have a working server machine and a working boot disk for the 
>clients, but I get an NFS error -101 when I boot a test client (a VMWare 
>virtual machine).
>
>Both the client and server are using Linux kernel 2.4.7, and the server is 
>set up with a kernel-based NFS v3 daemon.  The client is set up with 
>kernel-based network auto-configuration using DHCP, the kernel is 
>configured to have a root filesystem via NFS, and the IP address of the 
>server is in the LILO configuration.  Everything seems to work except for 
>the NFS connection.



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