Re: 2.1.72 and kernel NFSD

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Tue, 16 Dec 1997 22:41:19 -0500

Peter Horton wrote:
>
> modprobe nfs
> rpc.portmap
> rpc.mountd
> rpc.nfsd
> mount localhost:/vfat /mnt
>
> Works fine, no error (the rpc.* code is from a Linux 2.0 distribution).
>
> modprobe nfsd
> modprobe nfs
> rpc.portmap
> mountd
> mount localhost:/vfat /mnt
>
> Fails (using mountd from linux-nfs-0.4.21, or the original rpc.mountd).
>
> Have I got the right version of everything ?

I think you need to add a
knfsd 2

after the mountd command (knfsd or whatever you call the command.) Doing
a
ps -ax

command afterwards should show two nfsd processes, a lockd, and a
rpciod. There's an example script for loading modules and starting
daemons in the linux-nfs package.

Regards,
Bill