I was trying to get a MacOS/X to nfs mount my Fedora4. I kept recieving...
"NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered"

So i went to hosts.allow on the FC4 and entered my address

i.e.
portmap : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/255.255.255.0 : allow
portmap : ALL : deny

This changed nothing. I recived the same error upon attempt to connect. So out of curiosity I wanted to see what was being exported on the FC4 and ran...
showmount -e

This time the server gave the error. It said...
"mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not Registered"

Thid I do not understand. Can anyone shed some light. By the way the /etc/export file on the server allows the clients ip read and write access.

-Thanks

I have found a post that reported that the nfs deamon stays hooked to your systems if it is not shutdown correctly. The post referred to Fedora 2, I haven't test it on FC4 but this days when I have strange errors with nfs when everything should be write I just reboot my machine just to make sure there is nothing stuck in memory.

PS:I edited this message after I post because I tried to run the command you specified "showmount -e 127.0.0.1" and the first time I ran it gave the same error it gave you. I then did "service nfs start" and ran "showmount" and it returned what it was supposed to return. So I think you really should reboot your machine and make sure all daemons needed to run nfs correctly are loaded.


Hope this helps.

Just restart the services.

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Thanks. it helped me.
sis

Itz just because of services.

Bcoz after restarting services it works

thanks it helped me too.....

Thanks for your solution, I juste restart the daemon

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Sorry, I'm a Mac newbie ...

How does one restart the service? Assuming we want to restart nfsd.

I don't find an /etc/*nfs*, fer instance. Can't give that a "restart".

Try this: service nfsd restart

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Check if portmap was added to /etc/hosts.deny,if so, comment the line and restart nfs

Restart portmap
/etc/init.d/portmap restart

restart nfs
/etc/init.d/nfsd restart