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"John Boggon" <John.B@mailbox.uq.edu.au> wrote:

>Can anyone help me with the format of the fstab file ? I'm trying
>(unsuccessfully so far!) to mount the cd on my win95 machine on my Linux
>box.
>The line below is my entry in /etc/fstab

>Hydra:cdrom /cdrom nfs timeo=14,intr

>On boot, the Linux box reports RPC port mapper failure. I've tried
>different formats, putting slashes in, everything except physically
>threatening the machines with a heavy object. 

If I understand You correctly you are trying to get access to the
CD-ROM on the 95 machine from the linux box.  I have been exporting a
CD-ROM to my linux server from another linux box so the entries should
be similar.

One vital question is NFS server software are you running on the 95
machine?  If it's configured properly then I would check that you are
running the RPC portmapper on the linux machine.

To check just run ps -aux.  The output I get is:
=================================================================
excelsior:~# ps -aux | grep nfsd
root       126  0.0  1.1   836    72  ?  S    21:16   0:00\
/usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
root       128  0.0  0.1   804    12  ?  S    21:16   0:00\
(rpc.pcnfsd)
=================================================================

My nfs related entries in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 look like:

=================================================================
# Start the SUN RPC Portmapper.
if [ -f ${NET}/rpc.portmap ]; then
   echo -n " portmap"
   ${NET}/rpc.portmap
fi
 
# Start the various SUN RPC servers.
if [ -f ${NET}/rpc.portmap ]; then
  # Start the NFS server daemons.
  if [ -f ${NET}/rpc.mountd ]; then
    echo -n " mountd"
    ${NET}/rpc.mountd
  fi
  if [ -f ${NET}/rpc.nfsd ]; then
    echo -n " nfsd"
    ${NET}/rpc.nfsd
  fi
#   if [ -f $NET}/rpc.rusersd ]: then
#     echo -n "rusersd "
#     ${NET}/rpc.rusersd -d
#   fi
  # Fire up the PC-NFS daemon(s).
  if [ -f ${NET}/rpc.pcnfsd ]; then
    echo -n " pcnfsd"
    ${NET}/rpc.pcnfsd ${LPSPOOL1}
    ${NET}/rpc.pcnfsd ${LPSPOOL2}
  fi
#  if [ -f ${NET}/rpc.bwnfsd ]; then
#    echo -n " bwnfsd"
#    ${NET}/rpc.bwnfsd ${LPSPOOL1}
#    ${NET}/rpc.bwnfsd ${LPSPOOL2}
#  fi
fi # Done starting various SUN RPC servers
=================================================================

My entry in my /etc/fstab looks like:

=================================================================
defiant:/cdrom  /cdrom     nfs         defaults   1   1
=================================================================

I hope this helps...

>Is the entry in fstab all thats required ? 
>Do I have to specify the filesystem (msdos, iso9660) anywhere else ?

>The two machines are connected via NE2000 compatible cards. I can ping from
>each one successfully and telnet into Linux no problem. 

>John.


Regards,
Craig Read...
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