This has been happening to me recently and I wonder if it's similar
or related.  What I have found is that rpcbind is not starting after
a reboot.

If I do a /etc/rc.d/rpcbind status I'l find it's not running. So
by hand I have to start rpcbind, mountd and restart nfsd.

After that all is good.


Anyway, if the above isn't similar at least check status of mountd
and rpcbind to see if they are running.  If not there's likely to
be a reason written to /var/log/messages.

James


Daniel Eggert wrote:
> I'm having troubles with setting up an NFS server. When I try to mount 
> froma second NetBSD machine I get
>     [hobbes] ~> mount_nfs kelvin:/home1 home1
>     mount_nfs: rpcbind on server: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out
> What's wrong?
> 
> I'm trying to export /home1 on kelvin. So on kelvin my rc.conf is set up 
> as follows:
>     mountd=YES
>     mountd_flags=""
>     rpcbind=YES
>     nfs_server=YES
>     nfsd_flags="-tun 8"
> And I created /etc/exports on kelvin:
>     #/etc/exports
>     /home1  -mapall=nobody:nobody -ro hobbes
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
>